Grote Stirling Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Grote Stirling
Riding:Yale
Parliament:Canadian
Successor:Owen Jones
Term Start:6 November 1924
Term End:4 October 1947
Birth Date:31 July 1875
Birth Place:Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Spouse:Mabel Kathrine née Brigstocke
Party:Conservative
Progressive Conservative
Cabinet:Minister of National Defence
Minister of Fisheries (Acting)

Grote Stirling (31 July 1875  - 18 January 1953) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom, he was the son of Captain Charles Stirling (1831–1915), and officer in the Royal Navy of Scottish descent.

Stirling moved to Canada, and 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).

Stirling was married twice. Ha married first, in Beirut on 22 January 1903 Mabel Kathrine Brigstocke, daughter of Dr. R. 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).

Notes and References

  1. Marriages . 26 January 1903 . 1 . 36987.