What position did Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet take in early 1880s?
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell , 9th Baronet Sir William Stirling-Maxwell , 9th Baronet MP KT , of Pollok FRSE DCL LLD ( 8 March 181815 January 1878 ) , was a Scottish historical writer and art historian , politician , and virtuoso . Until 1865 he was known as William Stirling , and several of his books were published under that name . He was Chancellor of the University of Glasgow from 1875 until his death and was also a Knight of the Thistle , considered the highest honour that can be conferred by the Crown on a Scotsman . Life . He was born at Kenmure , the son of Sir Archibald Stirling , Esq. , of Keir and Cawder , and Elizabeth Maxwell , sister of Sir John Maxwell , 8th Baronet , and Harriet Maxwell ( died 1812 ) and daughter of Sir John Maxwell , 7th Baronet and Hannah or Anne Gardiner , daughter of Richard Gardiner , of Aldborough , Suffolk . He was privately educated at Olney in Buckinghamshire then studied at Trinity College , Cambridge , graduating with a BA degree in 1839 and proceeding to MA in 1843 . He travelled in Spain and the Levant and contributed to Frasers Magazine and the Examiner . In 1848 he published his pioneering Annals of the Artists of Spain . He succeeded to the Keir estates in 1847 . In 1849 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Russell . He served as the Societys vice president from 1871 to 1875 . He served as Member of Parliament for Perthshire from 1852 to 1868 and again from 1874 to 1878 . He was appointed a Member of the Universities Commission in 1859 and of the Historical Manuscripts Commission from 1872 to 1878 , as well as of the Scottish Education Board ( a forerunner to the Scottish Office ) . He was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews in 1862 and of the University of Edinburgh in 1871 . He succeeded to the Maxwell Baronetcy ( in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia ) in 1865 , assuming the additional name of Maxwell . He was elected Chancellor of the University of Glasgow in 1875 , the first to have been elected by members of the General Council ( previous Chancellors having been elected by members of the Senate ) , and was awarded an Honorary DCL from the University of Oxford in the following year . He was a member of the University of London Senate and a trustee of the British Museum and the National Gallery . He lived at Keir House near Dunblane . He was a breeder of shorthorns and Clydesdale horses , an ardent bibliographer and collector of works of art . He died on holiday in Venice on 15 January 1878 but his body was returned to Britain and he is buried in the Lecropt Churchyard near Stirling . Marriages and issue . He married firstly Lady Anna Maria Leslie-Melville ( died 8 December 1874 ) , daughter of David Leslie-Melville , 8th Earl of Leven and Elizabeth Anne Campbell , and had , at least : - Sir John Stirling-Maxwell , 10th Baronet , of Pollok - Brigadier General Archibald Stirling , of Keir ( 14 September 186718 February 1931 ) , married on 14 April 1910 The Hon . Margaret Mary Fraser ( 25 June 18814 August 1972 ) , daughter of Simon Fraser , 13th Lord Lovat and Alice Mary Weld-Blundell , and had six children : - William Joseph Stirling , of Keir ( 9 May 19111983 ) , married on 22 November 1940 Susan Rachel Bligh ( 12 August 19161983 ) , daughter of The Hon . Noel Gervase Bligh and Mary Frost and granddaughter of Ivo Bligh , 8th Earl of Darnley and Florence Rose Morphy , and had five children : - Archibald Hugh Stirling , of Keir ( born 18 September 1941 ) - James Joseph Stirling ( 1943–1943 ) - Hannah Ann Stirling ( born 29 May 1944 ) , married on 7 January 1970 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil , 7th Marquess of Salisbury ( born 30 September 1946 ) - Magdalen Stirling ( born 25 November 1945 ) , married in 1969 Patrick Petit , and had issue - John Alexander Stirling ( born 26 February 1948 ) , married first in 1971 Susan Black , without issue , and married secondly in 1985 Olivia Louise Waller , and had three children : - Joseph Patrick William Stirling ( born 1985 ) - Christabel Georgia Stirling ( born 1987 ) - Hugh David Archibald Stirling ( born 1993 ) - Peter John Stirling ( born 1 February 1913 ) , married on 6 February 1963 Mahin Feli - Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling ( 15 November 19154 November 1990 ) - Hugh Joseph Stirling ( 4 May 1917k.i.a. , World War II , Libya , 22 April 1941 ) , unmarried and without issue - Margaret Elizabeth Mary Stirling ( 4 July 19149 February 1997 ) , married on 26 June 1940 Simon Ramsay , 16th Earl of Dalhousie ( 17 October 19141999 ) - Irene Katharine Teresa Stirling ( 9 March 19191992 ) In March 1877 , Stirling Maxwell married secondly noted author and society figure Caroline Norton , a granddaughter of the famous Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan . She died three months later . Selected publications . Anonymous . - Songs of the Holy Land ( privately printed , 1846 ) - An Essay towards a Collection of Books Relating to Proverbs , Emblems , Apophthegms , Epitaphs , and Ana ( privately printed , 1860 ) As William Stirling . - Annals of the Artists of Spain ( 1847 ) - The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles the Fifth ( London : John W . Parker & Son , 1852 ) - Velazquez and his Works ( 1855 ) - Napoleons Bequest to Cantillon : a Fragment of International History ( 1858 ) As Sir William Stirling-Maxwell . - Don John of Austria ( two volumes , 1883 ) Further reading . - Enriqueta Harris , Sir William Stirling-Maxwell and the History of Spanish Art ( 1964 ) - Hilary Macartney , Sir William Stirling Maxwell as Historian of Spanish Art ( Courtauld Institute of Art , 2003 ) References . - Kidd , Charles , Williamson , David ( editors ) . Debretts Peerage and Baronetage ( 1990 edition ) . New York : St Martins Press , 1990 , Sources .