North Dalrymple, 9th Earl of Stair

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. ==Career==

Dalrymple was a merchant who lived at Bhavnagar, India. 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. ==Personal life==

On 27 May 1817, he married Margaret Penny, a daughter of James Penny, Esq. of Arrad, Lancashire. Before her death in 1828, they were the parents of: Lord Stair died at Oxenfoord Castle on 9 November 1864 and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, John. ==References==