James Stirling of Garden
FRICS (born 1930) is a retired Scottish army officer and chartered surveyor, who served as Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk from 1983 to 2005.[1]
The son of a
Woolwich Building Society and the Scottish Widows and Life Insurance Fund.[1]
By this time, he had already taken an active role in local affairs. He was appointed a
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2006 New Year Honours, the year after he retired as lord lieutenant. He was also awarded an honorary degree by the University of Stirling in 2004, and the following year was made a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order Saint John (GCStJ); he was Prior of the Order in Scotland between 1995 and 2009.[1] He also received the Service Medal of the Order of St John
for his long service to the order of St John.
References
- ^ a b c "Stirling of Garden, Col Sir James", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 5 June 2019.