{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Patrick James Stirling''' FRSE LLD (1809–23 March 1891) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer and author on law and economics. He was the leading lawyer in western Perthshire.
==Life== He was born at Dunblane in 1809, the son of Mary Graham (d.1846) and her husband, Robert Stirling (1765-1817). He appears to be related to the Stirlings of Kippendavie.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuSCRIPTs/search/detail_p.cfm?NID=38614&AID=&CID=98902|title=University of Glasgow :: Manuscripts Catalogue :: Patrick James Stirling|website=special.lib.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref>
He studied law at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh.
In 1848 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being James Haldane. He was awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) by the University of St Andrews for his literary works.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He died on 23 March 1891.
==Family==
In 1836 he married Katherine Murray (b.1806).<ref name=":0" />
==Publications==
*''The Law'' (translated the French text of Frederic Bastiat's book into English) *''Economic Sophisms'' (co-written with Frederic Bastiat) *''The Philosophy of Trade'' *''Fallacies of Protection'' (co-written with Frederic Bastiat) *''Harmonies of Political Economy'' 2 vols (co-written with Frederic Bastiat) *''The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries'' *''Essays on Political Economy'' (co-written with Frederic Bastiat)
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