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2 unusual facts about Hailes


Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes

Sir Patrick Hepburn of Dunsyre, 1st Lord Hailes (died 1483) was the feudal lord of Hailes and its castle in East Lothian and a Lord of Parliament.

His grandson Patrick (who would become the first Earl of Bothwell), succeeded him as Lord of Hailes, as his eldest son Adam predeceased him.


Christian Dalrymple

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.

Education in Scotland

Other schools include The Community School of Auchterarder, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross; The Nicolson Institute, Stornoway, Western Isles; North Walls Community School on Hoy, Orkney Islands and Wester Hailes Education Centre, Wester Hailes, Edinburgh.

Gary Hailes

He has also performed several plays for BBC radio and voice-overs and had a regular slot "Hailes Horrors" on the Steve Allen show on LBC radio.

Julia Hailes

In 1986, Julia Hailes and John Elkington co-founded SustainAbility Ltd, a think tank consultancy that now has offices in London, Washington and Zurich, with another planned later in 2008 in India.

Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet

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.


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