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    Field Marshal John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, KT, PC (20 July 1673 – 9 May 1747) was a Scottish soldier and diplomat. He served in the Nine Years'...
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    John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair PC (10 November 1648 – 8 January 1707) was a Scottish politician and lawyer. As Joint Secretary of State in Scotland...
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  • of Lords. Stair is the eldest child of John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair and Davina Katherine Bowes-Lyon (2 May 1930 - 1 November 2017), daughter of...
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  • John Aymer Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair KCVO MBE JP DL (9 October 1906 – 26 February 1996), styled Viscount Dalrymple from 1906 until 1961; was a British...
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    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...
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    John James Hamilton Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair, KT, DSO, DL (1 February 1879 – 4 November 1961), styled Viscount Dalrymple between 1903 and 1914, was...
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  • John Hew North Gustav Henry Hamilton-Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair (12 June 1848 – 2 December 1914), known as Viscount Dalrymple from 1864–1903, was a...
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    Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries, 4th Earl of Stair, KT (1699 – 27 July 1768) was a Scottish peer. He inherited the title of Earl of Dumfries...
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    James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair (May 1619 – 29 November 1695) was a Scottish lawyer and statesman, and a key influence on the Scottish Enlightenment...
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    succeeded in the title Earl of Dumfries by his nephew, Patrick Macdowall of Freugh; and the Earl of Stair went to his cousin, John Dalrymple. The Dumfries family...
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  • for Wigtownshire. Hew Hamilton Dalrymple was born on 27 September 1857, the third son of John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair and was educated at Harrow School...
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    Ireland. He was the son of George Dalrymple, a brother of John Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Stair. Father of John Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair. He was educated at...
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  • of tying the carotid artery. Dalrymple was born in 1772 in Norwich, England, where his father, a native of Dumfriesshire and relative of the Earl of Stair...
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    bought in 1719 by Elizabeth Dundas, Lady Stair, the widow of John Dalrymple (1648 - 1707) the 1st Earl of Stair, hence its present name. The close contains...
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  • Countess of Stair (1930–2017) John Dalrymple, 14th Earl of Stair (born 1961) Simon Bowes-Lyon (born 1932) John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971)...
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  • (died 11 July 1834), married on 2 June 1808 as Miss Laura Manners, John William Henry Dalrymple, later 7th Earl of Stair (1784–1840), nullified July 1811...
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    4th Earl of Bute. John Stuart was the member of a family that descended from John Stewart (1360–1449), Sheriff of Bute, a natural son of Robert II of Scotland...
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  • Stair and Margaret Ross (daughter of James Ross of Balneil, Wigtown). His paternal uncles were John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Sir James Dalrymple...
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    grandfather of eight, including John Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair, Lady Jane Georgina Dalrymple (wife of Sir Arthur Vivian), Lady Anne Henrietta Dalrymple (wife...
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    David Bowes-Lyon (category Younger sons of earls)
    (1930–2017), who married John Aymer Dalrymple, Viscount Dalrymple, later 13th Earl of Stair (1906–1996), in 1960. Sir Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon (b....
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    Oxenfoord Castle (category Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes)
    Lady Marjorie Dalrymple, sister of John Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair. Since 1993, the house has reverted to private use by the Dalrymple family and has...
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  • Lady Jean Rankin (category Dalrymple family)
    Midlothian, the eldest child of John Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair (then Viscount Dalrymple) and Violet Evelyn Harford, only daughter of Col. Frederick Henry...
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    Viscount of Stair; and his mother, Lady Christian Hamilton, was a daughter of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington. He was the eldest of sixteen children...
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  • 1677–1777), a daughter of John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair and Elizabeth Dundas, daughter and heiress of Sir John Dundas of Newliston. They had a daughter...
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  • of Eglinton 1921–1924: Edward Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin 1924–1926: John Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair 1926–1929: Archibald Douglas, 4th Baron Blythswood...
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    for Lucy Ashton was Janet Dalrymple, eldest daughter of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, and his wife Margaret Ross of Balneil. As a young woman...
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  • This is a list of the 189 present earls in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It does not include extant...
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    Stranraer (category Ports and harbours of Scotland)
    manager James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, jurist and author of the Institutions of the Laws of Scotland John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, sat as MP...
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    Elizabeth Dundas (category Dalrymple family)
    investigated, no conviction was made. Around 1668/9 she married John Dalrymple, the First Earl of Stair (1648-1707).  Between 1670-1680 she had 6 sons and 4 daughters...
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  • British Ambassador to Paris, John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, argued that the short-term advantage to both regimes of an alliance outweighed their traditional...
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