Sir David Dalrymple of Hailes, Baronet

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes (October 28, 1726 – November 29, 1792) was a Scottish advocate, judge and historian, born in Edinburgh...

...His father, Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet, of Hailes, Haddingtonshire, Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland, was a grandson of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair; and his mother, Lady Christian Hamilton, was a daughter of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington. The eldest of sixteen children, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy upon his death in 1751...

He was twice married: (1) in 1763, to Anne, daughter of Sir George Broun, Lord Coalston, a Lord of Session, by whom he had a daughter, Christian (d.1838). He remarried (2) March 20, 1770, Helen (d. 1799), daughter of Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, of Kilkerran, Ayrshire, by whom he had another daughter, Jean (d.1803) who married her cousin, James Fergusson, Esq., and left issue."

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 August 2012, 03:11 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Dalrymple,_Lord_Hai...> [accessed 27 August 2012]

Other References

• Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1904; Vol. IV; page 397

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