Grote Stirling
Grote Stirling | |
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.jpg) Stirling, c. 1934 | |
| Member of Parliament for Yale | |
| In office 6 November 1924 – 4 October 1947 | |
| Preceded by | Martin Burrell |
| Succeeded by | Owen Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 July 1875 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England |
| Died | 18 January 1953 (aged 77) |
| Party | Conservative Progressive Conservative |
| Spouse | Mabel Katherine née Brigstocke |
| Cabinet | Minister of National Defence Minister of Fisheries (Acting) |
Grote Stirling PC (31 July 1875 – 18 January 1953) was a Canadian politician.
Life
[edit]Born in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom, he was the son of Captain Charles Stirling (1831–1915), an officer in the Royal Navy of Scottish descent, and Selina Matilda Grote. Grote was a civil engineer, educated at University College London, and Crystal Palace School of Engineering.
In Canada
[edit]Stirling moved to Canada, where he continued to work as an engineer. Grote was elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the British Columbia riding of Yale in a 1924 by-election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1925, 1926, 1930, 1935, and 1940. From 1934 to 1935, he was the Minister of National Defence and Minister of Fisheries (Acting).
Family
[edit]Stirling was married twice. He married first, in Beirut on 22 January 1903 Mabel Katherine Brigstocke, daughter of Dr. Richard Whish Brigstocke, who lived in Beirut.[1] She died in 1933, and he remarried in 1936 Gladys Annie Gready, daughter of Wallace Gready. There were four children of the first marriage, including Rear-Admiral Michael Grote Stirling (1915–2002), who resigned over his opposition to the unification of the Canadian armed forces and later served as the Agent-General of British Columbia in London.
References
[edit]- ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 36987. London. 26 January 1903. p. 1.
External links
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