Английская Википедия:Hugh Dalrymple-Murray-Kynynmound
Шаблон:Short description Hugh Dalrymple-Murray-Kynnynmond (Шаблон:Ne Hugh Dalrymple) (1695 – 23 December 1741), was a Scottish landowner, lawyer and journalist.
Early life
He was a younger son of Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet and Janet (Шаблон:Nee Rochead) Murray Dalrymple.[1] At the time of his parents' marriage, his mother was the widow of Alexander Murray of Melgund (eldest son of Sir Robert Murray, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and brother to Robert Murray). From his mother's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother, Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet. Among his siblings of his parents marriage were Andrew Dalrymple (who immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony giving up his right to the family title), Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (who married Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington), and Janet Dalrymple (who married Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet and, after his death, Gen. James St Clair).[2]
His father was the fifth and youngest son of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair and Margaret Ross (daughter of James Ross of Balneil, Wigtown).[3] His paternal uncles were John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Sir James Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, Sir Hew Dalrymple, and Thomas Dalrymple (who became physician to Queen Anne). His maternal grandfather was Sir James Rochead, 1st Baronet of Inverleith and his aunt, Mary Rochead, was the wife of Sir Francis Kinloch, 3rd Baronet.[4]
Career
In 1709, his father became Lord Advocate of Scotland and purchased Whitehills House as a family seat, renaming it Newhailes after the Dalrymple's Hailes Castle.[1] Hugh became an advocate,[5] and journalist and lived at Kynynmound in Fife.[6]
Upon the death of his nephew, Sir Alexander Murray, 2nd Baronet, in March 1736, the Murray baronetcy passed to Sir Joseph Murray, 3rd Baronet (the son of Robert Murray), while the estate, including Melgund Castle, passed to him.[7] In recognition, he assumed these names on succeeding to the estates of the Murrays of Melgund in Forfarshire, and Kynnynmond in Fife.[8][9][10]
Personal life
Hugh married Isobel Sommerville (b. Шаблон:Circa–1760), the daughter of Hugh Sommerville of Invertiel (later absorbed in to Kirkcaldy). Together, they were the parents of:[11]
- Agnes Dalrymple-Murray-Kynynmound (1734–1778), who married Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, of Minto, in 1747.[12]
Dalrymple-Murray-Kynnynmond died on 23 December 1741. Melgund Castle was inherited by his daughter and passing by marriage to his grandson, the 1st Earl of Minto, who was granted the title Viscount Melgund, presently used by the heir to the earldom. It remained in the family until it was sold in 1990.[8][13]
Descendants
Dalrymple-Murray-Kynnynmond was posthumously a grandfather to eight, including Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Hugh Elliot, Alexander Kynymound Elliot, Robert Elliot, and Eleanor Elliot (wife of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland).[1]
References
External links
- Dalrymple-Murray-Kynynmound, Hugh, (d 1741), lawyer and journalist at the National Archives of Scotland
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3713.
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- ↑ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 334.
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