Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet
Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet was an English banker and politician.
He was born in Philadelphia the son of Captain Walter Stirling, RN of Faskine, Lanark and his wife Dorothy Willing of Philadelphia.
He was Captain commandant then Major commandant of the Somerset Place Volunteers in 1798, Lieut-Col. of the Prince of Wales's Loyal Middlesex Volunteers in 1803-08 and a member of the London and Westminster Light Horse in 1803–07.
He was a director of the Globe Insurance Co. and a junior partner in the bank of Hodsoll and Michel in the Strand. He was elected MP for Gatton, Surrey from 1799 to 1802 and St Ives, Cornwall from 1807 to 1820. He was created a baronet in 1800 and appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1804–05.
He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.
He died in 1832. He had married Susannah, the daughter and heiress of George Trenchard Goodenough, FRS of Borwood, Isle of Wight and had a son and 4 daughters. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Sir Walter George Stirling, 2nd Baronet.
