Stirling baronets of Faskine (1800)
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The Stirling baronetcy, of Faskine, parish of Old Monkland[1] in Lanarkshire, was created on 15 December 1800) in the Baronetage of Great Britain for the banker and politician Walter Stirling. He was Member of Parliament for Gatton, Surrey from 1799 to 1802 and St. Ives from 1807 to 1820.[2][3] The son of the naval officer Walter Stirling, who had declined a baronetcy, he lobbied William Pitt the younger for the title for himself;[3] his mother Dorothy Willing was a daughter of Charles Willing of Philadelphia.[2]
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The grant was the final baronetcy in the Baronetage of Great Britain.[2] The title became extinct on the death in 1934 of the 3rd Baronet.[4]
