The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (25 October 1790 – 6 June 1878) was a Scottish clergyman and inventor of the Stirling engine. Stirling was born at Cloag Farm near Methven Perthshire the third of eight children. He inherited his father’s interest in engineering[citation needed] but studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow becoming a minister of the Church of Scotland as second charge of the Laigh Kirk of Kilmarnock in 1816.
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