. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. liam Stirling, first of Glorat. William Stirling,the fifth laird of Law, who bought the Kirklands, died about the end ofthe seventeeth century, and was succeeded by his grandson, John Campbell,second son of Agnes Stirling, his daughter, and John Campbell of Succoth, On succeeding to Law, Edenbarnet, and the Kirklands he assumed thename of Stirling. John Campbell Stirling was quite of a different way of thinking from all theother Stirlings in these parts. He was, of course, half a Campbell, and i
. The parish of Strathblane and its inhabitants from early times : a chapter in Lennox history. liam Stirling, first of Glorat. William Stirling,the fifth laird of Law, who bought the Kirklands, died about the end ofthe seventeeth century, and was succeeded by his grandson, John Campbell,second son of Agnes Stirling, his daughter, and John Campbell of Succoth, On succeeding to Law, Edenbarnet, and the Kirklands he assumed thename of Stirling. John Campbell Stirling was quite of a different way of thinking from all theother Stirlings in these parts. He was, of course, half a Campbell, and in-herited the Whig principles of his race. His father was the legal adviser andfriend of the unfortunate Archibald Earl of Argyll, and was present withhim on the scaffold at his execution.* ^ The Craigbernard and Glorat Book and the Keir Book agree as to Sir Mungos wives andfamily. ^ Kirklands Writs. ^ Full details of the successive baronets and their families are to be found in the Stirlings ofCiaigbernard and Glorat. ?* Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgc-v Gentry, article on THE KIRKLANDS OF STRATHBLANE. 149 In the Jacobite risings of the 15 and the 45 this laird of Kirklandsstrongly supported the House of Hanover, and was one of the actors in theridiculous Loch Lomond Expedition which was got up by the Whig lairds inDumbartonshire in 1715 to overawe the Highlanders and secure all the boatson the loch. John Campbell Stirling died in 1757 and was succeeded by hisonly son, James. James Stirling of Law, Edenbarnet, and Kirklands, alienated a considerablepart of the family estates, and in particular sold, as already related, the Kirk-lands of Strathblane to James Stirling of Craigbarnet, 3rd September, 1760, andthus ended the short connection of the Stirlings of Law and Edenbarnet withStrathblane. The Stirlings of Craigbarnet too have now but a slender hold on Strath-blane, In 1883 Muirhouse, with the lands attached to it, was sold by MajorGraham Stirling of Craigbar
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