Historical Dalrymple's

The Dalrymple's of Stair

James Dalrymple (May 1619 - 29 November 1695)
Created Viscount of Stair by King William in 1690.

John Dalrymple (1648 - 8 January 1707) 
Created 1st Earl of Stair in 1703. Now remembered for his part in the infamous massacre of Glencoe.

John Dalrymple (1673-1747) 
2nd Earl of Stair. Field-marshal ambassador in Paris (1715-1720), and, besides seeing service under Marlborough, He had no son, and in 1707 had selected his nephew John (1720-1789) as heir to the title, but through a decision of the House of Lords in 1748 he only became 5th Earl, after his cousin James and James's son had succeeded as 3rd and 4th Earls. 

James Dalrymple (? - 13 November 1760)
3rd Earl of Stair. Son of William Dalrymple whose father was John Dalrymple the 1st Earl of Stair

William Dalrymple-Crighton (1699 - 1769)
4th Earl of Stair

John Dalrymple (1720 - 1789)
5th Earl of Stair (son of second Earl)

John Dalrymple (1749 - 1821)
6th Earl of Stair (son of 5th Earl)

John William Henry Dalrymple (1784 - 1840)
7th Earl

John Hamilton Dalrymple (1771 - 1853)
8th Earl (son of 7th Earl). Army General and Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland

North Hamilton Dalrymple (1776 - 1864)
9th Earl (son of 7th Earl)

John Hamilton Dalrymple (1819 - 1903)
10th Earl. Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (1879 - 1897) and governor of the Bank of Scotland (1870 - 1903)

John Hew Henry North Hamilton Dalrymple (1848 - 1914)
11th Earl

John James Dalrymple (1879 - 1961)
12th Earl

John Aymer Dalrymple (1906 - 1996)
13th Earl

John David James Dalrymple (1961 - )
14th Earl

Famous Dalrymple's 

Sir James Dalrymple of Borthwick
Created baronet in 1698

Sir Hew Dalrymple (1652 - 1737) 
Lord North Berwick, (third son of James Dalrymple), was created a baronet on Nova Scotia in 1698. By 1694 Sir Hew Dalrymple took over the heritable debts of the estate and in 1699 purchased Tantallon Castle and later the Bass Rock from the Crown

Thomas Dalrymple 
Physician to Queen Anne

Sir Hugh Dalrymple (1700 - 1753)
Invented hollow-pipe drainage ( which would have been stone filled culverts before )allowing large areas of water-logged land to be brought into agriculture production. 

Sir David Dalrymple ( - 1721) 
Created baronet 1700 and was Lord Advocate

David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes (28 October 1726 – 29 November 1792)
Scottish advocate, judge and historian, was born at Edinburgh. His father, Sir James Dalrymple, Bart., of Hailes, in the county of Haddington, auditor-general of the exchequer of Scotland, was a grandson of James, first Viscount Stair;

Alexander Dalrymple (24 July 1737 –  19 June 1808) 
A Scottish geographer and the first hydrographer of the British Admiralty. He was the brother of Scottish judge and earl, David Dalrymple.

Grace Dalrymple Elliot (1758 - 1823) 
Courtesan.  Born in Edinburgh, the youngest daughter of Hew Dalrymple