Record ID:
35092807 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 85308396
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1791
  • Drumpellier (Scotland)
Death:
  • 18650422
  • Guildford (England)
Associated with:
  • Western Australia
Used for:
  • Stirling, James, 1791-1865
See also:
Notes:
  • His Chart of Swan River, 1977: map recto (facsim. of 1827 ed.: Captn. James Stirling, R.N.)
  • Tooley's dict. of mapmakers, 1979 (Stirling, Capt. (later Admiral) Sir James (1791-1865), first Gov. W. Australia (1829-39))
  • LC/NAF 11 April 2019: authorized access point (Stirling, James, 1791-1865)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography online 11 April 2019: Sir James Stirling (1791-1865), governor, was born in Drumpellier, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He entered the navy and was promoted lieutenant in 1809, post captain in 1818 and placed on half pay. He was appointed captain of the Success in 1826, with instructions to act to resist French ambitions around Australia, and on his return to London pressed for establishment of a colony on the western coast of Australia. In 1829 Stirling arrived in Western Australia and proclaimed the Swan River settlement on June 18, 1829, becoming governor in November 1831. The colonial territory (all of Australia not included in New South Wales) was unmapped and unexplored. Little support was forthcoming from London. He resigned the governorship, and departed in January 1839, thereafter resuming his naval career. He died in Guildford, Surrey, on 22 April 1865.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/stirling-sir-james-2702
Local system number:
  • 000000093325
  • abv03922947
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX31418
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng AIAS DLC rda VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc