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Stirling Peerage collection [textual record]

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Date:

1828-1833.

Reference:

R7917-0-1-E, MG24-L1

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Item ID number:

100453

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Stirling Peerage collection
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Date(s):

1828-1833.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.7 cm of textual records (15 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of five holograph letters and two claimants letters including two letters from self-proclaimed Earl of Stirling, Alexander Humphrys-Alexander (1783-1859), to William Ogle Hunt regarding his efforts to obtain recognition as the ninth Earl of Stirling, 1828; one letter from Ephraim Lockhart to Messrs. Swain, Maple, Pearse and Hunt which refers to the same subject; correspondence from Stirling to Hunt regarding a proposed loan of 40,000 dollars, 1828; correspondence from Stirling to Ogle referring to the Scotch representative Lockhart, 1828; and a printed prospectus offering land for sale in New Brunswick, 1833.

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Stirling, Alexander Humphrys-Alexander, Earl of, 1783-1859

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Titles of honour and nobility

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Stirling, Alexander Humphrys-Alexander, Earl of, 1783-1859 : Alexander Humphrys-Alexander was born 21 June 1783 at Birmingham. Between 1803 and 1814 he, with his father, was a prisoner-of-war at Verdun and in Paris. In 1812 he married Forunata Bartoletti, daughter of Giovanni Bartoletti of Naples. On 8 March 1824 he assumed by Royal license the surname of Alexander, after that of Humphrys, and thereafter styled himself Earl of Stirling. Making claim to this Earldom, he voted in the election of Scottish Peers 1825, 1830 and 1831. His claim to the title was under (an alleged) charter of Novodamus, 7 Dec 1639, whereby, failing heirs male of the body of the grantee, the peerage was to go to the eldest heir female (without division) of the last of such heirs male, and to the heirs male of the bodies of such heirs female respectively.

Humphrys-Alexander was indicted for forgery, 18 March 1839, and the charter on which he based his claim was pronounced a forgery, but that he was himself the forger was pronounced "not proven". He died, 4 May 1859, at Washington, U.S.A. "The Stirling Obsession." 18 August 1999.

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General note:

Received in 1922 and 1961 from Mrs. J. Devine of Yonkers, New York.

Related material:

See also: MG 21, Egerton Manuscripts MSS 2395 (Thomas Povey Papers), a collection of miscellaneous official papers relating to the British settlement; MG 21, Additional Manuscripts MSS 14034 (Board of Trade), a collection of papers relating to America and others colonies; MG 21, Additional Manuscripts MSS 19049 (Samuel Waldo Papers), a collection of miscellaneous papers relating to colonial subjects; MG 21, Additional Manuscripts MSS 27859 (Francis Place Papers), a petition of Alexander Humphrys-Alexander, self-styled Earl of Stirling, to the House of Commons; and MG 11, Colonial Office, 217 (Nova Scotia and Cape Breton original correspondence), volumes 160 to 172, a collection of documents of the Secretary of State responsible for colonies.
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Titles of honor and nobility

Titres honorifiques et nobiliaires
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Private

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MG24-L1
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