Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of
- Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of
(1567-1640)
Poet, s. of A. of Menstrie, and cr. Earl of S. by Charles I., 1633, was a courtier, and held many offices of state. He studied at Glasgow and Leyden, and wrote among other poems, partly in Latin, sonnets and four Monarchicke Tragedies, Darius, Croesus, The Alexandræan Tragedy, and Julius Cæsar (1603-7), the motive of which is the fall of ambition, and which, though dignified, have little inspiration. He also assisted James I. in his metrical version of the Psalms. He d. insolvent in London. The grant of Nova Scotia which he had received became valueless owing to the French conquests in that region.
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STIRLING, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF — poet, born at Menstrie, near Alloa; was for a time tutor to the family of Argyll; was the author of sonnets called Aurora, some curious tragedies, and an Elegy on the Death of Prince Henry ; he was held in high honour by James VI. and followed … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
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Stirling, Sir William Alexander, Earl of — (1567? 1640) King James gave him a patent, September, 1621, to the territory now embracing the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and the Gaspé peninsula. To further the colonization of his huge domain, Alexander instituted the… … The makers of Canada
Stirling, William Alexander, 1st earl of — born с 1576, Menstrie, Clackmannan, Scot. died Feb. 12, 1640, London, Eng. Scottish poet and colonizer of Canada. He was a member of the court of James I, where he wrote his sonnet sequence Aurora (1604). In 1621 he obtained a grant for territory … Universalium
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