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    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...
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  • 14th Earl of Stair (born 4 September 1961) is a British politician who, since 2008, has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Stair is the...
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    succeeded his brother James, as fourth earl of Stair, and was thenceforward styled earl of Dumfries and Stair. The Earl left a legacy in commissioning the...
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    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' War and the War of the Spanish...
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  • of Stair in 1703 John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair (1648–1707), initially 2nd Viscount of Stair, made Earl of Stair in 1703 John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of...
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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 1691–1695...
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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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    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...
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    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 Scottish...
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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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  • Dalrymple, 3rd Earl of Stair (died 13 November 1760), was the son of Colonel William Dalrymple of Glenmure and Penelope Crichton, Countess of Dumfries. He...
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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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  • John William Henry Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair (16 November 1784 – 22 March 1840) was the son of General William Dalrymple and Marianne Dorothy Harland...
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    Army, composed of the British, Hanoverian and Austrian troops, and a French army commanded by the duc de Noailles. While the Earl of Stair exercised operational...
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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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    the Earl of Roseberry (who probably commissioned the work) to the city for use as a museum in 1907. Only then did it acquire the name of "Lady Stair's House"...
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  • Astor family (category Families of German ancestry)
    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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    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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    Parish of Stair where the River Ayr is joined by the Glenstang Burn. The parish is known for its connection with the Dalrymples, Earls of Stair. The family...
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  • eldest daughter of Archibald Montgomerie, 16th Earl of Eglinton, by his former wife Lady Beatrice Dalrymple, daughter of the 11th Earl of Stair. Georgina's...
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  • Thumbnail for William Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries
    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 in 1742...
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    professions: John, Master of Stair (1648–1707), who succeeded as 2nd Viscount of Stair and was later created 1st Earl of Stair in 1703, an able lawyer and...
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    Hamilton-Dalrymple baronets (category Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia)
    Stair, and the brother of John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of Cranstoun, and Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of...
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  • General John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair, KT (14 June 1771 – 10 January 1853), known as Sir John Dalrymple, 5th Baronet, between 1810 and 1840...
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    Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bere Alston)
    Jacobite rising of 1715. He also served with the Pragmatic Army under the Earl of Stair at the Battle of Dettingen during the War of the Austrian Succession...
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    the family arms of John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, the villain[clarification needed] of the massacre of Glencoe, include a pattern of nine diamond-shape...
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    Roland Walker (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations) from April 2021 until June 2024. He became Chief of the General Staff, the...
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  • Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Stair (1720–1789) was a Scottish soldier and politician. He was eldest son of George Dalrymple of Dalmahoy, fifth son of John Dalrymple...
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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. 1932), who...
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    the Earl of Stair, who bequeathed the land to the local authorities. A stand was first constructed for football in 1932. The record attendance of 6,000...
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