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unusual facts about Dalrymple, South Ayrshire



1806 in New Zealand

17 June – The Venus, Captain Samuel Chace, is taken piratically at Port Dalrymple (Launceston) and sails for New Zealand.

A Quiet Day in Belfast

The film was based on a play by Andrew Dalrymple and was filmed in Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland.

Battle of Corunna

In early October 1808, following the scandal in Britain over the Convention of Sintra and the recall of the generals Dalrymple, Burrard and Wellesley, Sir John Moore took command of the 30,000 man British force in Portugal.

British occupation of Manila

Many valuable oil paintings from the Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros, rare maps, charts, historical manuscripts and official documents, precious books, letters and papers of religious orders, together with bundles of primary source materials about the Philippines during the 17th century, were taken away by Dawsonne Drake and his successor, Alexander Dalrymple, and eventually ended up at the British Museum in London or auctioned by Sotheby's.

Carcluie Loch

Carcluie Loch (NS 34894 16186) is a small freshwater loch in the South Ayrshire Council Area, lying in a glacial Kettle Hole, Parish of Dalrymple, Scotland.

Cathcart Wason

His father Rigby was an MP for Ipswich (1831–37) before Cathcart was born, and his brother Eugene represented two UK constituencies (South Ayrshire and Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire) at various times between 1885 and 1918.

Christian Dalrymple

Miss Dalrymple's estate of Newhailes and the Lordship and Barony of Hailes descended to her nephew Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson.

She inherited the Newhailes estate in East Lothian, Scotland, in 1792 (where she lived for forty-six years) but the title of Baronet passed to her cousin, James Dalrymple, who became 4th baronet, of Hailes.

Miss Christian Dalrymple of New Hailes (30 December 1765 - 9 January 1839) daughter of Sir David Dalrymple (1726-92), 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes by his first marriage to Anne Brown.

Clay Dalrymple

Clay E. Dalrymple began his professional baseball career with the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League in 1956, and was obtained by the Milwaukee Braves before the 1959 season.

Dalrymple baronets

There have been several baronetcies created for people with the surname Dalrymple.

Dalrymple-Champneys baronets

The first Baronet was the son of William Champneys, Dean of Lichfield from 1868 until 1875; and the younger brother of Weldon Champneys and Basil Champneys.

Desmond Swayne

He was educated at Drumley House Preparatory School at Mossblown in South Ayrshire and Bedford School.

Farel Dalrymple

Dalrymple currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is working on the second volume of Pop Gun War, to be published by Dark Horse Comics, as well as illustrating the ten-issue series Omega the Unknown, written by author Jonathan Lethem and published by Marvel Comics.

Galrigs Loch, Ayrshire

The Galrigs Loch was a substantial freshwater loch situated in low lying area between Newfield and Dundonald in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

Gordon, Scottish Borders

Later owners of the tower were Walter Pringle of Stichill, the Covenanter and the Dalrymple family.

Hay Point, Queensland

It is made up of two bulk coal terminals, Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, owned by Prime Infrastructure Holdings (formerly Babcock & Brown Infrastructure) and Brookfield Asset Management, and Hay Point Services Coal Terminal, owned and operated by a joint venture between BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi.

Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick

In 1699 Dalrymple bought the barony and Castle of Tantallon from James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas, but allowed the castle to fall into further ruin.

James Backhouse Walker

"The French in Van Diemen's Land" (Hobart, 1889); "The Settlement of Tasmania, comprising Papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania" (Hobart, 1890); "The Discovery and Occupation of Port Dalrymple" (Hobart, 1890).

John Kelso Hunter

His father was a gardener at a South Ayrshire estate owned by Lieutenant-Colonel William Kelso, he died when Hunter was 8 years old.

John was born at Dankeith, South Ayrshire, and he was a relation to the McCallums of Troon.

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Between 1990 and 2000, "Theodore Dalrymple", whose real name is Anthony Daniels, worked as a physician at City Hospital and Birmingham Prison, both located in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England.

Luís Vaz de Torres

Dalrymple provided a sketch map which included the Queirós - Torres voyages to Joseph Banks, who undoubtedly passed this information to James Cook.

Martnaham Loch

Martnaham Loch (NS 396 172) is a freshwater loch lying across the border between East and South Ayrshire Council Areas, 2 km from Coylton, in the parishes of Coylton and Dalrymple, 3 miles from Ayr.

Old Luce

Carscreugh Castle (of Earl of Stair in 1782) was the home of Janet Dalrymple, on whom Sir Walter Scott based his heroine Lucy, the Bride of Lammermoor, (who became Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera of the same name.) Janet fell in love with and secretly betrothed to a penniless local man, Archibald Rutherford.

Old Rome, South Ayrshire

The old village or hamlet of Old Rome, Rome or Old Rome Ford is located in South Ayrshire, Parish of Dundonald, Scotland.

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós

Dalrymple provided a sketch map which included the Queirós -Torres voyages to Joseph Banks who undoubtedly passed this information to James Cook.

Sam Shearer

Shearer was born in Coylton in South Ayrshire and started his football career in Scottish Junior Football with Trabboch before being invited for a trial at Southampton in the summer of 1908.

Samuel Tudor

With Watson, Tudor had 2 sons, William Watson, who married Mary Dalrymple Bruce, great granddaughter of General Samuel Barwick II, Governor of Barbados; and Henry Samuel Tudor, who married Mary Rowe Bradley, daughter of U. S. Senator Stephen Rowe Bradley, and sister of William Czar Bradley, U.S. Representative, both of Vermont.

Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet

He inherited Newhailes, and the Lordship and Barony of Hailes in 1839, on the death of his aunt, Miss Christian Dalrymple (when he also assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple).

Fergusson's estate of Hailes in Haddingtonshire and Mid Lothian descended to his second son, Charles, who assumed the name of Dalrymple, as representing his great-grandfather, Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, (Lord Hailes), but the baronetcy of Hailes was extinct.

Sir James Stewart, 1st Baronet

The elder Stewart was replaced as Lord Advocate by Sir David Dalrymple in 1709, but the younger Stewart succeeded Dalrymple as Solicitor-General, holding the office jointly with Thomas Kennedy of Dunure.

Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet

Sir John North Dalrymple Dick-Lauder of Fountainhall, 11th Baronet, born 22 July 1883 at Sultanpur Lodhi, and baptised at Christ Church, Mussoorie, India.

Sir John Hamilton-Dalrymple, 5th Baronet

An army officer, he served as a cornet in the 28th Light Dragoons in 1795, rising through the ranks of lieutenant in 1797, captain in 1800 and then going on to half-pay in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens.

South Ayrshire

The buildings were built in 1931 on the site of Ayr Jail and opened by King George VI.

Thomas Seton

In April 2008, the British Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, placed a temporary export bar on ‘a rare likeness of Alexander Dalrymple', by John Thomas Seton. Dalrymple was the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty, who ‘through his pioneering work on nautical charts, is a pivotal figure in the development of the global maritime industry as well as of the British Empire’.

Thorntons Gap

One such track over Herveys Range west of Townsville provided steep but usable access to the goldfields, particularly to Keelbottom Creek and the township of Dalrymple.

West Yorkshire Regiment

In 1768, the regiment under Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, arrived in Boston via Halifax, during the crisis surrounding the Townshend Acts.

William Tennant Gairdner

He had four sons (William Henry Temple, Hugh Montgomerie, Eric Dalrymple, Anthony Philip) and three daughters (Helen Christian, Ailsa Bridget, Dorothea).


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