Hew Dalrymple (advocate)
Captain Hew Dalrymple (sometimes spelt Hugh; ca. 1740 – 1774) was a Scottish advocate and poet who served as Attorney General of Grenada.[1]
His youngest daughter was the courtesan Grace Elliott.[2]
Dalrymple graduated LLD in 1771. He was involved in the great Douglas case.[3]
Works[]
- Dalrymple, Hew (1759). "Woodstock Park: an Elegy". – an elegy for Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706–1758) who commanded the Raid on St Malo in 1758
- Dalrymple, Hew (1763–70). "Rodondo; or the State Jugglers". Scots Magazine. – a defence of Scotland during the Bute administration
References[]
- ^ Radcliffe, David H. "Hugh Dalrymple (1740 ca.-1774)". English Poetry 1579–1830. Virginia Tech. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
- ^ Oxford Journals (1866). Notes and queries. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Alger, John Goldworth (1889). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Further reading[]
- Eliott, Grace, in Journal of my Life (1859)
- Forster, Harold, Supplements to Dodsley's Collection of Poems (1980) 102
- Notes Queries 1st Series 9:589
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