John Sterling (author)

[2] He raised funds for Spanish liberal exiles to carry out their plans for insurrection, and his words influenced young Robert Boyd to give his family inheritance to Torrijos's cause.

[4] Shortly after his marriage in 1830 symptoms of tuberculosis induced Sterling to take up his residence on the island of St Vincent, where he had inherited some property, and he remained there for fifteen months before returning to England.

[2] While at St Vincent he wrote "So far as I see, the Slaves here are cunning, deceitful and idle; without any great aptitude for ferocious crimes, and with very little scruple at committing others.

Essays and Tales, by John Sterling collected and edited, with a memoir of his life, by Julius Charles Hare, appeared in 1848 in two volumes.

[8] His son, Major-General John Barton Sterling (1840–1926), after entering the navy, went into the army in 1861, and had a distinguished career (wounded at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882), both as a soldier and as a writer on military subjects.