General Sir William Stirling KCB (4 August 1835 – 11 April 1906) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Lieutenant of the Tower of London.

[1] His father had bought an estate at Muiravonside and he had twelve children including William who was the third son.

[2] Stirling became assistant adjutant and quartermaster general, Woolwich District in 1880, Commander Royal Artillery for Southern District in 1885 and Governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1890.

In 1893 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1893 Birthday Honours list.

He went on to be Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1900 and was promoted to full general on 5 January 1902,[3] shortly before his retirement in August that year.