Stirling, William Alexander, 1st earl of
- Stirling, William Alexander, 1st earl of
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died Feb. 12, 1640, London, Eng.
Scottish poet and colonizer of Canada.
He was a member of the court of
James I, where he wrote his sonnet sequence
Aurora (1604). In 1621 he obtained a grant for territory in North America that he named New Scotland (
Nova Scotia), despite French claims to part of the land. He offered baronetcies to Scotsmen who would sponsor settlers, but the region was not colonized until his son established a settlement at Port Royal (
Annapolis Royal). Alexander was compelled to surrender the territory under the Treaty of Susa (1629), which ended an Anglo-French conflict. Scottish settlers were ordered to withdraw by 1631.
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