Vice Admiral Frederick Henry Stirling (1829 – November 1885) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.

He was a son of Admiral Sir James Stirling, the first Governor of Western Australia and Ellen Mangles.

Having been born at sea on the barque Parmelia, off the Cape of Good Hope,[1] Stirling was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1848.

[2] He went on to serve in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.

[2] He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Australia Squadron, in 1870 and Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, in 1879.