James Stirling ( 1692 - 1770 )

Birth: Garden, Stirlingshire, Scotland (1692) Death: Edinburgh (05 December 1770) Profession: Teacher Research Field: Mathematics, mining Education: Glasgow; Balliol College, Oxford (matriculated 1711; expelled 1715 for corresponding with notorious Jacobites) Career: Travelled to Venice, home of his patron, Niccolo Troni (FRS 1715), where he made the acquaintance of Nicholas Bernoulli (FRS 1714); discovered the secret of Venetian glass-making and, in fear of his life, returned to England with the assistance of Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672) and became a teacher, later a partner, lecturing on mathematics at Watt's Academy in Little Tower Street, Covent Garden London (1725-1735); Manager of the Scots Mining Company at Leadhills, Lanarkshire (1735); surveyed the Clyde with a view to making it navigable Memberships: Berlin Academy (1748) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/11/1726 Proposers: John Arbuthnot; Sir Alexander Cuming In printed list to 1753; resigned (1754).