Volume 2

The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland / by William Anderson.

Date:
1863
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    sumed the name of Hamilton, in addition to his own, on suc- ceeding to the Bargeny estate, 12tli February 1796, by the death of liis uncle, John Hamilton, Esq., advocate, as above stated. He married Janet, second daughter of William Diitf, of Crombie, Esq , by whom he had ten sons and four daugh- ters, all of whom died young, except four sons and two daugh- ters. He was for some years in ttie army, but sold out on liis marriage in 1774. He represented the county of East liOthian in several parliaments, and died at Bargeny, 13th January 1800. The second son, Jolm, was a lieutenant-gen- eral in the army. His eldest son, Sir Hew Dalrymple-Haniiiton, the fom'th baronet, of North Berwick and Bargeny, bom 3d .January 1774, was seven years in the guards and one in the dragoons. He first represented the county of Haddington and afterwards Ayrshire in parliament. He was also lieutenant-colonel of the Ayrshire militia. He married at London 19th May 1800, the Hon. Jane Duncan, eldest daughter of Adam, first Vis- count Duncan, by whom he had a daugliter, Henrietta-Dun- das, born 8th November 1801, married in 18'22 to Augustin- Louis-Joseph-Assimir-Gustave-de-Eranquetot, due de Coigny in France. This lady now possesses the Bargeny estates in Ayrshire. Sir Hew died 23d February 1834, and was suc- ceeded by liis brother. Major-general Sir Jolm Dalrymple Hamilton, who married 30tli July 1800, Charlotte, only daugliter of Sir Patrick War- render of Lochend, Bart., a)id had two sons and five daugh- ters. He died 2(jth May 1835. His eldest son. Sir Hew Hamilton-DaliTmple, si.tth baro- net, bom in 1814, entered the army, and in 1847 became lieutenant-colonel of the 71st foot, but retired in 1852. He served at the capture of Coorg in the East Indies in April 1834; and in 1846 was appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Had- dingtonshire. He married in 1852 the only daughter of Ro- bert Arkwright, Esq. of Sntton Scarsdale, Der'nysliire. lU-ir presumptive, his brother, John Wiirrender. The first of the Dalrymples of Hailcs, who became so dis- tinguished, was the Hon. Sir David Dalrymple, an eminent lawyer, the fifth son of the first viscount of Stair. He was created a baronet on the 8th May 1700, and in 1703 was member for Culross in the Scots parliament. In 1706 he was one of the commissioners for arranging the articles of Union, and was afterwards lord advocate of Scotland in the reigns of Queen Anne and George the First (from 1709 till 1720). His eldest son. Sir James Dalrymple, the second bar- onet, held the office of auditor of the exchequer. By his wife. Lady Christian Hamilton, second daughter of Thomas, sixth earl of Haddington, he had sixteen children. Sir David, the eldest, was the celebrated Lord Hailes, the eminent lawyer and accurate historian, of whom a memoir is given below, as is also one of the fifth son, Alexander, the distinguished hy- drographer. Jolm, the fourth son, lord provost of Edinburgh in 1774, and in several succeeding years, married Anne, daughter of Walter Pringle, ICsq. of St. Kitts, by whom he had two sons, James and Jolm. Provost Dalrymple died 8lh August 1779. Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, married first, on 12th November 1763, Anne Brown, only daughter of Lord Coal- ston, one of the lords of session; by lier he had a son who died an infant, and a daughter. Christian, born on the 28th December 1765, who inherited the family estate, and died on the 9th January 1838. Lady Dalrymple died 18th May 1768, and on 20th March 1770, Lord Hailes married, secondly, Helen, youngest daughter of Sir James Fergnsson, baronet. Lord Kilkon au, also a lord of session, and by her had a daughter, Jane, born 30th May 1777, and married, 8th November 1799, her cousin James Fergusson, Esq., who, in 1813, on the death of his uncle, Sir Adam Fergusson, became Sir .James Fergnsson, fourth baronet, of Kilkemin. Leaving , no male issue, the baronetcy, on the death of Lord Hailes, in | 1792, descended to his nephew, James. | Sir James, the fourth baronet, the elder son of John Dal- rymple, lord provost of Edinburgh, perished at sea in the end of the year 1800, and was succeeded by his brother, Sir John Piingle Dalrymple, a colonel in the army. On his death, 17th October 1829, the title became extinct, and in January 1838, the estate of New Hailes fell to Sir Charies Fergusson of KilkeiTan, who took tlie name of Dalrymple before his own. [See Dalkymple-Fkuousson, surname of.] The family of Dalrymple of High Mark, Wigtonshire, and Delrow Castle, Hertfordshire, who also possess a baronetcy, are descended from Captain John Dalrymple of the Enniskil- len dragoons, the fourth son of the Hon. Sir Hew Dalrymple, first baronet of North Berwick, as above mentioned. Captain Dalrymple had an only son. Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, a general in the army, and colonel of the 51st foot, born at i Ayr, 3d December 1750, and knighted at St. .James', 5th .May 1779. He was created a baronet Ctii May 1815. He married 16th May 1783, Frances, youngest daughter and coheir of General Francis Leighton, and had two sons and three daughters. He died 9th April 1830. Sir Adolphus- John, second baronet, born in London, 3d February 1784, married in .lune 1812, Anne, daughter of Sir James Graham, first baronet of Kirkstall, M.P. for Carlisle, without issue; a lieutenant-general in the army in November 1851; was M.P. for Weymouth in 1817. for Appleby in 1819 and 1820, and for the Haddington district of burghs from 1826 to 1831; unsuccessfully contested Brighton in 1832 and 1835, but was returned in 1837, and was again unsuccessful in 1.''41. The brother of the second baronet, Leighton-Cathcart Dalrymple, C.li., a lieutenant-colonel in the 15th hussars, died unmarried in 1S20. DALRYMPLE, J.amks, first Ansconnt Stair, an cniiiient lawyer and statesman, was born at l)i-umniurcliie, Ayrshire, in May lGi9. He lost his fatlior Lcfore he liad attainLM_l his fil'tii ycai-, and after receiving the elenientar}' part of his education at tlie school at ]\Iaiichlin, lie was sent, at the age of fourteen, to the university of Glas- gow, and in 1637 took the degree of master of arts. In the following year he had a company of foot in the earl of Glencairn's regiment. In 1041 he stood a candidate, in military uniform, for the chair of pliiloso])hy in Glasgow college ; and was tlie successful competitor. In 1647 he resigned his professorship, and having tui-ned his attentiim to the study of tlic civil law, he was, in February j 1648, admitted an advocate, and soon became eminent at the bar. In 1649 he w^as appointed i secretary to tiie commissioners sent to Breda, to invite Chailes the Second to come to Scotland, and (lin-ing his absence he was appointed by the