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Born | North Hamilton Dalrymple 1776 Edinburgh, Scotland |
Died | 9 November 1864 87–88) Oxenfoord Castle, Scotland | (aged
Spouse(s) | Margaret Penny (m. 1817;died 1828)Martha Willett Dalrymple (m. 1831;died 1864) |
Children | 8 |
Parent(s) | Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet Elizabeth Hamilton-Makgill |
Relatives | John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair (brother) |
North Hamilton Dalrymple, 9th Earl of Stair (1776 – 9 November 1864) was a Scottish aristocrat.
Dalrymple was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1776. He was the second son of Sir John Dalrymple of Cousland, 4th Baronet (d. 1810), a Baron of the Court of the Exchequer of Scotland, and Elizabeth Hamilton-Makgill. Among his siblings were Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple-Hamilton, who married Augustin-Gustave de Franquetot, 3rd Duke of Coigny. His elder brother, John Hamilton Dalrymple, succeeded in to their father's baronetcy and inherited Oxenfoord Castle in 1810, and to the earldom of Stair upon the death of their second cousin, John Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair in March 1840. [1]
His paternal grandparents were Sir William Dalrymple of Cranstoun, 3rd Baronet, and the former Agnes Crawford. His mother was the heiress and representative of the Viscounts of Oxfuird. [2]
Dalrymple was a merchant who lived at Bhavnagar, India. [1]
On 10 January 1853, upon the death of his elder brother John Hamilton Dalrymple, former MP for Midlothian, he succeeded as the 9th Earl of Stair in the Peerage of Scotland, as well as the 2nd Baron Oxenfoord in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (by special remainder) and the 6th Dalrymple Baronet of Killock in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. The barony of Oxenfoord gave him a seat in the House of Lords. [1]
On 27 May 1817, he married Margaret Penny, a daughter of James Penny, Esq. of Arrad, Lancashire. [3] Before her death in 1828, they were the parents of: [1]
He married, secondly, Martha Willett Dalrymple, daughter of Col. George Dalrymple of the 19th Regiment of Foot (son of Lt.-Col. Campbell Dalrymple) and Martha Willett Miller, on 23 March 1831. [3] Together, they were the parents of: [1]
Lord Stair died at Oxenfoord Castle on 9 November 1864 and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, John. [3] Lady Stair died on 4 June 1869. [4]
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