John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair, KT JP DL (1 April 1819 – 3 December 1903), styled Viscount Dalrymple from 1853 until 1864, was a

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peer and politician, who served as Governor of the

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for thirty-three years.

Early life

He was the eldest son of

North Dalrymple, 9th Earl of Stair North Hamilton Dalrymple, 9th Earl of Stair (1776 – 9 November 1864) was a Scottish aristocrat. Early life Dalrymple was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1776. He was the second son of Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet, Sir John Dalrymple of Cousl ...

, and his first wife, Margaret Penny (d. 1828). His sister, Lady Margaret Dalrymple, married advocate and amateur botanist Allan Alexander Maconochie. After his mother's death in 1828, his father remarried to Martha Willett Dalrymple, daughter of Col. George Dalrymple. His paternal grandparents were Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet and, his cousin, Elizabeth Hamilton MacGill (daughter and heiress of Thomas Hamilton of Fala, who himself had inherited

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, property of the Viscounts of Oxfuird). His maternal grandfather was James Penny of Arrad, Lancashire.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition'', 3 volumes (

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, 2003), volume 3, page 3715-3715.

Career

He represented

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in Parliament from 1841 to 1856. He became

Earl of Stair Earl of Stair is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for the lawyer and statesman John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount of Stair. Dalrymple's father, James Dalrymple, had been a prominent lawyer; having served as Lord Presiden ...

on the death of his father in 1864, and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire from 1870 to 1897. From 1870 to 1903 he was the Governor of the

. After it was proposed in 1877, he successfully opposed the southward extension to

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of the

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. He also served as Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland from 1869 to 1871. Between 1896 and 1902 he served as President of the Edinburgh conservation body the

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Personal life

In 1846, he married his cousin, Louisa Jane Henrietta Emily de Franquetot, the Edinburgh-born eldest daughter of Augustin-Gustave de Franquetot, 3rd

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and Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple-Hamilton (a daughter of

Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th Baronet Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th Baronet (1774 – 23 February 1834) was a Scottish politician. Early life He was the eldest son of Sir Hew Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet. He succeeded his father in February 1800 and took the additional surname of Hamilt ...

). Together, they had eight children, including: *

John Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair John Hew North Gustav Henry Hamilton-Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair (12 June 1848 – 2 December 1914), known as Viscount Dalrymple from 1864 to 1903, was a Scottish army officer and nobleman. Early life Hamilton-Dalrymple was the son of John Ham ...

(1848–1914), who married Susan Harriet Grant-Suttie, daughter of Sir James Grant-Suttie, 6th Bt. and Lady Susan Harriet Innes-Ker, in 1878. * Lady Jane Georgina Dalrymple (1850−1914), a twin who married Sir

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, a son of industrialist

John Henry Vivian John Henry Vivian FRS (9 August 1785 – 10 February 1855) was a Welsh industrialist and politician of Cornish extraction. He was a member of the Vivian family. Vivian was the son of John Vivian (1750–1826), of Truro, Cornwall, and his ...

. * Lady Anne Henrietta Dalrymple (1850–1899), a twin who married Major-Gen. William Vesey Brownlow. * Hon. North de Coigny Dalrymple-Hamilton of Bargany (1853–1906), who married Marcia Liddell. * Hon. Sir Hew Hamilton Dalrymple KCVO (1857–1945), who died unmarried.Death Certificate of Sir Hew, District of Canongate & Portobello, City of Edinburgh, 1945, p. 115, No. 343 * Hon. Robert McGill Dalrymple (b. 1862), a Reverend who became Vicar of St. Stephen's Church, Sneinton,

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. Lady Stair died on 30 June 1896. Lord Stair died on 3 December 1903.

Descendants

Through his son North, he was a grandfather of Colonel Sir

North Dalrymple-Hamilton Captain North Edward Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton of Bargany (17 February 1922 – 8 July 2014) was a Royal Navy officer of World War II who, as gun director of the battleship , witnessed the sinking of the . His father, Frederick Dalrymple-H ...

and Admiral Sir

Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton, KCB (27 March 1890 – 26 December 1974) was a British admiral who served in World War I and World War II. He was captain of HMS ''Rodney'' when it engaged the ''Bismarck'' on 27 May 1941. Naval c ...

References

*''Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1850''. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1850

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stair, John Dalrymple, 10th Earl Of 1819 births 1903 deaths Nobility from Midlothian

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