Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet, KT, DL,

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(6 June 1866 – 30 May 1956) was a

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landowner,

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politician and

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Life

Sir John Stirling Maxwell by William Ranken

The eldest son of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet and Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville, second daughter of David Leslie-Melville, 8th Earl of Leven and Elizabeth Anne Campbell, he was educated at

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and at

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. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1878. He was

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Member of Parliament for the College Division of Glasgow between 1895 and 1906, and later served as Chairman of the

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from 1929–1932. He was also Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, and a Trustee of the

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, Chairman of

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. He was a

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in the Royal Company of Archers and an active

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, being a member of The Pollokshaws Royal Arch Lodge No. 153, a founding member of Lodge Blythswood No. 817, and an honorary member of Lodge Pollok, Pollokshields No. 772. He was a founder member of the

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(1931), becoming one of its first Vice-Presidents and President from 1943 until his death. He realised the importance of green spaces within a city. In this context, he was determined to protect the Pollok Estate and give the people of Glasgow access to it, which he undertook in 1911. Stirling-Maxwell was also involved in trying to resolve the protracted problem of finding a home for the art treasures presented to Glasgow in 1944 by Sir William Burrell. After his death, his daughter gave Pollok House, a substantial proportion of the estate and her father's art collection to the

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. This gift of land eventually allowed the Glasgow city fathers to erect a building to hold the

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. In 1929 he was appointed a Knight of the Thistle. He held the honorary degree of LLD from the

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, the

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and

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. Hon. RSA; Hon.

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; Hon. RWS; Hon. RSW and a DL. Sir John and Lady Stirling-Maxwell were both elected Fellows of the

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in 1902. In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Sir Ernest Wedderburn, Sir John Sutherland, Sir

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and Sir William Wright Smith. Sir John Stirling-Maxwell died at Pollok House on 30 May 1956.

Family

On 12 November 1901 he married Ann Christian Maxwell, daughter of The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, at Mochrum Parish Church in Mochrum in

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. The couple had one daughter, Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, 11th Baronetess.

References

Sources

*Kidd, Charles & Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *

External links

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