David Dalrymple ca.1665-1721

Sir David DALRYMPLE, 1st bart ca.1665-1721

Sir David Dalrymple's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection *569)

Biographical Note

Fifth son of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair. MA Edinburgh University 1681, after which he studied at Leiden. He became an advocate in 1688, and was solicitor-general from 1701 to 1709; he held various other legal and state offices, including Lord Advocate in Scotland in 1709, and Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He was a Burgess for Edinburgh and other Scots towns, and MP for Haddington 1708-21. He was made a baronet in 1700.

Books

Dalrymple used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks *569); the extent of his library is not known. Most of his estate and goods passed to his eldest son James, 2nd bart (1692-1751).

Sources

• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
• Sorensen, Janet. "Dalrymple, Sir David, first baronet (c. 1665–1721), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• History of Parliament.