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Walter Stirling

Royal Navy captain

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Captain
name	Sir Walter Stirling
birth_date	18 May 1718
death_date
image	Walter Stirling.jpg
caption	"Sir Walter Stirling of Faskine, Commander in Chief at the Nore, 1781. - d. 1786" by James Northcote
allegiance	Kingdom of Great Britain
rank	Captain
branch
commands	Nore Command
battles	Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

Captain Sir Walter Stirling (18 May 1718 – 24 November 1786) was a captain in the Royal Navy.

Naval career

Born in 1718, Walter Stirling entered the Royal Navy. He was made "The Regulating Captain of the Impress at the Tower". On 30 October 1753 he married Dorothy Willing, the daughter of Charles Willing, a Philadelphia merchant. According to family stories, he persuaded the family of Horatio Nelson to let Horatio join the navy, and he lost the opportunity to be appointed Governor of Halifax as he was visiting his wife in Scotland when the offer came in. In 1780 he was captain of the Gibraltar, and was present when Admiral George Rodney captured the island of Sint Eustatius from the Dutch during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. Selected to take home dispatches, he was knighted on arrival. In 1783 he appointed Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

References

General references

References

(2004). "Walter Stirling".
"James Stirling". Dictionary of Australian Biography.

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