Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, (15 October 1839 – 20 June 1916) was a Scottish

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politician.

Life

Born Charles Fergusson, he was the second surviving son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, and grandson of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet, and his wife Jean, daughter of David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.

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, was his elder brother. On the death of his father in 1849 he assumed the surname of Dalrymple in lieu of Fergusson. He was educated at

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and

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, graduating with third-class honours in classics. He was called to the bar at

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in 1865. In 1849 he assumed the surname Dalrymple in lieu of his patronymic in accordance with the will of his great-grandfather David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes Sir Charles Dalrymple - Suffolk Celebrities 1893

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He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for

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, and a JP for Midlothian and Ayrshire, and a captain in the Prince Regent's Ayr and Wigtown Militia. His seat was at Newhailes, Musselburgh. He entered Parliament for

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in 1868, a seat he held, with a brief interruption from April to July 60, until 1885, and later represented

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from

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to 1906. He was created a

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, of New Hailes in the County of Midlothian, in 1887, and sworn of the Privy Council, in 1905. From 1894 to 1896 he was Grand Master of the Freemasons in Scotland. Dalrymple died on 20 June 1916, aged 76. He is buried in Inveresk churchyard. The grave lies in the north-west corner of the first Victorian cemetery extension, west of the main churchyard.

Family

He was married to Alice Mary Hunter Blair (1850–1889) daughter of Sir Edward Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet. They had three children, Christian Elizabeth Louisa (later Dumaresq) (1875–1932), David Charles Herbert, (1879–1932) and Alice Mary (1884–1959). Their son, Lt Cmdr David Charles Herbert Dalrymple (1879–1932), inherited the estates when he became 2nd baronet.

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Deputy lieutenants of Buteshire Scottish Freemasons Scottish justices of the peace Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ipswich Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Younger sons of baronets