Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet

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"Ipswich senior". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1892.

Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet (15 October 1839 – 20 June 1916), was a Scottish Conservative politician.

Born Charles Fergusson, he was the second son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, and grandson of Sir James Fergusson, 4th Baronet, and his wife Jean, daughter of David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, was his elder brother. On the death of his father in 1849 he assumed the surname of Dalrymple in lieu of Fergusson. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge,^[1] graduating with third-class honours in classics ^[2]. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1865. In 1849 he assumed the surname Dalrymple in lieu of his patronymic in accordance with the will of his great-grandfather David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes

He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for East Lothian, and a JP for Midlothian and Ayrshire, and a Captain in the Prince Regent's Ayr and Wigtown Militia. His seat was at Newhailes, Musselburgh.

He entered Parliament for Buteshire in 1868, a seat he held, with a brief interruption from April to July 1880, until 1885, and later represented Ipswich from 1886 to 1906. He was created a Baronet, of New Hailes in the County of Midlothian, in 1887, and sworn of the Privy Council, in 1905.

Dalrymple died in June 1916, aged 76.

References

1. ^ Dalrymple, Charles in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
2. ^ Debrett's House of Commons 1870

• Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Charles Dalrymple

Succession boxes

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by James Lamont	Member of Parliament for Buteshire 1868–1880	Succeeded by Thomas Russell
Preceded by Thomas Russell	Member of Parliament for Buteshire 1880–1885	Succeeded by James Robertson
Preceded by Jesse Collings Henry Wyndham West	Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1885–1906 With: Lord Elcho 1886–1895 Sir Daniel Ford Goddard 1895–1906	Succeeded by Sir Daniel Ford Goddard Felix Cobbold
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of New Hailes) 1887–1916	Succeeded by David Dalrymple
Scottish feudal lordship
Preceded by Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson	Lord and Baron of Hailes 1849 – 1876	Succeeded by Arthur Balfour