William Alexander, Lord Stirling

Major General William Alexander, also known as Lord Stirling (April 26 [O.S. April 15] 1726 – January 15, 1783) was a Continental Army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. He held a claim to be the male heir to the Scottish title of Earl of Stirling through Scottish lineage (being the senior male descendant of the paternal grandfather of the 1st Earl of Stirling, who had died in 1640), and he sought the title sometime after 1756.

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