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Man of action, naval officer, able administrator, skilled diplomat-James Stirling's distinguished and multi-faceted career carried him to the four corners of the nineteenth- century world. This ambitious biography, seven years in the making, breaks new ground in documenting fully Stirling's path from birth into one of Scotland's oldest families, through to founder and Governor of the Swan River Colony and, ultimately, to Admiral and British naval chief in East Asia.