Born: Ju­ly 20, 1806, Kames Cas­tle, Isle of Bute, Scot­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 18, 1844, Vent­nor, Isle of Wight.

Sterling at­tend­ed Cam­bridge and went on to a ca­reer as au­thor and cri­tic. In 1828, he and F. D. Mau­rice bought the Athen­a­cum, but kept the pub­li­ca­tion on­ly six months. Ster­ling’s works in­clude:

• Arthur Coningsby, 1833
• A volume of po­ems, 1839
• Strafford, 1843

Julius Hare ed­it­ed Ster­ling’s works in 1848, and Carlyle wrote a bi­o­gra­phy of him in 1851.

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Hymns

1. O Source Divine, and Life of All
2. When Up to Nightly Skies We Gaze