James Dalrymple Duncan Dalrymple
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James Dalrymple Duncan Dalrymple of Woodhead FRSE FSA (7 July 1852 – 8 February 1908) was a Scottish landowner, antiquarian and keen amateur chemist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was a Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries of London and Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. In 1907 he was founder of the Dalrymple Lecture in Archaeology.[1] His brother was Thomas Dalrymple of Woodhead (1854-1933).
Life[]
He was the son of Rev Thomas Gray Dalrymple (1808-1861) and Mary Dalrymple Duncan (1811-1895)[2] of Kirkintilloch, on 7 July 1852.
From 1870 to 1872 and from 1878 to 1880 he was President of the Kirkintilloch Agricultural Society.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in January 1889.[4] His proposers were Sir James Robertson (Earl of Kintore), John Gray McKendrick, and John Ferguson.[5]
Around 1900 he changed his name to James Dalrymple Gray Dalrymple at which time he was living at Meiklewood in Stirling. This probably reflected a desire to associate with his father’s name, now his influential mother was dead. In 1901 he is listed as resigning as a Director from the firm of Morrison & Duncan of Hope Street in Glasgow.[6] In later life he was a Justice of the Peace for both Dunbartonshire and Stirlingshire.
He died on 8 February 1908.[7]
Family[]
He married Katherine Hutton Rowan of Holmfauldhead (b.1854)
Publications[]
- Craignethan Castle
- Bothwell Castle
- A Visit to Les Saintes Maries de la Camargue, St Maximin and La Saint Baume (1890)
- St Martin D’Auxigny: An Old Scots Colony in France (1890)
- The Chateau of St Fargeau (1900)
Legacy[]
His country estate of Woodhead now forms Woodhead Park, gifted to Kirkintilloch in the early 20th century and formalised as a park in 1931.[8]
The Dalrymple Fountain on Industry Street in Kirkintilloch was also gifted to the town.
Trivia[]
His mother, Mary Dalrymple Duncan, was the subject of an oil painting by John Gibson held by the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.
References[]
- ^ "Hunterian Art Gallery Collections: GLAHA 44200".
- ^ "Mary Dalrymple". geni_family_tree.
- ^ "Kirkintilloch Town and Parish".
- ^ "Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - List of Ordinary Fellows elected during Session 1888–89 - Cambridge Journals Online".
- ^ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
- ^ "No. 11364". The Edinburgh Gazette. 13 December 1901. p. 1456.
- ^ "James Dalrymple Gray Dalrymple of Woodhead (1852 - 1908) - Genealogy". geni_family_tree.
- ^ "Woodhead Park".
- 1852 births
- 1908 deaths
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- People from Kirkintilloch
- Scottish landowners
- Scottish philanthropists
- Scottish antiquarians
- 19th-century British philanthropists
- 19th-century Scottish businesspeople