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Sir James Frazer Stirling (1924–1992), was born in Glasgow, on 22 April 1924. His father, Joseph Stirling was a ship's engineer who had moved to Liverpool to work for the Blue Funnel line, later becoming chief engineer.

About 1935 Stirling went to Quarry Bank School showing promise in art class but was otherwise without distinction; a teacher later described him as 'of all his pupils perhaps the least likely to succeed in later life'. Stirling had passed no exams, but his art work and the backing of the school got him accepted at the School of Art in Liverpool.

He combined studying there part-time from 1940–41 with work in an architect's office.

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He volunteered for military service in 1942 and was commissioned in 1943. He took part in the D-Day landing on 6 June 1944, was wounded and flown back to Britain, returning in August but was soon wounded again, this time more seriously.

On the strength of his year at the School of Art he was accepted as a student at Li