Hew Dalrymple
Captain Hew Dalrymple (sometimes spelt Hugh; 1727 – 1774) was a Scottish advocate and poet who from 1771 served as Attorney General of Grenada. He was born on 12 July 1727, the eldest surviving son of Robert Dalrymple, Writer to the Signet, and his wife Anne Kennedy. He married Grissel, daughter of Col.
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Hew Dalrymple
- Died
- 1774
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- poet
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Robert Brown, 43rd Foot, from whom he later separated, and by whom he had two sons and two daughters: Jacintha Catherine Hesketh Dalrymple and the younger courtesan Grace Elliott. Dalrymple graduated LLD in 1771. He was involved in the great Douglas case.
• – an elegy for Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706–1758) who commanded the Raid on St Malo in 1758 • – a defence of Scotland during the Bute administration
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- 1.Radcliffe, David H. Hugh Dalrymple (1740 ca.-1774). English Poetry 1579–1830. Virginia Tech.
- 2.Oxford Journals. Notes and queries. Oxford University Press. 1866.
- 3.Alger, John Goldworth. 17.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- 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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