Dalrymple, John
Dalrymple, John
DALRYMPLE, JOHN. (1749–1821). British officer. Born in Edinburgh on 24 September 1749, John Dalrymple was the eldest son of the fifth Earl of Stair. Made a captain in the 87th Regiment, which was raised in July 1779, Dalrymple served with distinction under Benedict Arnold in the New London raid of 6 September 1781. He was sent to London with dispatches by General Henry Clinton shortly thereafter. On 5 January 1782 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Poland. During the period 5 August 1785 to 1788 he held the same post in Berlin. In 1789 he succeeded his father to the peerage as the sixth earl of Stair and died in London on 1 June 1821.
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