title: Percy Stirton
text: # Percy Stirton
  
  Percy Ernest Stirton (17 August 1867 – 27 January 1937) was an Australian politician.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He was born in Paterson to Presbyterian minister Thomas Stirton and Jean Ray Bell Nivison. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and in 1884 was articled as a clerk to an Inverell solicitor. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1890, practising in a partnership at Moree. He was also a Moree alderman, serving as mayor in 1886. In 1903 he was elected in a by-election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Moree, but he was defeated running for Gwydir the following year. He later became a grazier, and was involved in the formation of the Country Party. Stirton died at Darlinghurst in 1937.
  
  