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Earl of Stair is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. It was created in 1703 for the lawyer and statesman John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount of Stair. John Dalrymple (born 1648 &ndash 8 January 1707) was a Scottish noble who played a key role in the 1707 Treaty of Union between He actively supported William III's claim to the throne and served as Secretary of State for Scotland. William III or William of Orange (14 November 1650 &ndash 8 March 1702 He is informally known in Northern Ireland and Scotland as "King Billy" The Secretary of State for Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: Rùnaire Stàite na h-Alba) is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the However, he was forced to resign after he authorised the massacre of Glencoe of 1692. The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland, in the early morning of 13 February 1692, during the era of the "Glorious Dalrymple was made Lord Newliston, Glenluce and Stranraer and Viscount of Dalrymple, at the same time he was given the earldom, also in the Peerage of Scotland. All three titles were created with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to the heirs male of his father. His father James Dalrymple was also a prominent lawyer and served as Lord President of the Court of Session. James Dalrymple 1st Viscount of Stair (May 1619 - November 29, 1695) Scottish Lawyer and Statesman, was born at The Lord President of the Court of Session is head of the judiciary in Scotland and presiding Judge (and Senator of the College of Justice and Court of Session He was created a Baronet, of Stair in the County of Ayr, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1664, and in 1690 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Glenluce and Stranraer and Viscount of Stair. Baronetage of England (1611-1705 King James I erected the hereditary Order of Baronets in England on 22 May 1611 for the settlement of Ireland

The first Earl of Stair was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Earl. He was a prominent soldier and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces. The Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, or just the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C, was the professional head of the British Army from 1660 until 1904 when the office In 1707 Lord Stair surrendered all his honours to the Crown, and obtained a new charter empowering him to name as his successor any male descendant of the first Viscount of Stair. In 1747, shortly before his death, he nominated his nephew John Dalrymple (d. 1789), second son of his third brother George Dalrymple (d. 1745). This was mostly due to the fact that his second brother Colonel the Hon. William Dalrymple (d. 1744) (heir presumptive to the peerages from 1707 to 1744) had married Penelope Chrichton, 4th Countess of Dumfries, a peeress in her own right. This nomination was contested and the House of Lords decided in favour of James Dalrymple (d. The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" 1760), the second son of the aforementioned Colonel the Hon. William Dalrymple by his wife the Countess of Dumfries. On his uncle's death in 1747 James succeeded as third Earl of Stair.

He was childless and was succeeded by his elder brother, the fourth Earl, who had already succeeded his mother as fifth Earl of Dumfries. He was also childless and on his death in 1769 the two earldoms separated. He was succeeded in the earldom of Dumfries by his nephew Patrick Macdonnell-Chrichton (see the Earl of Dumfries for later history of this title). Earl of Dumfries is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was originally created for William Crichton 9th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in 1633, and stayed The earldom of Stair and its subsidiary titles were passed on to his cousin, the aforementioned John Dalrymple, the fifth Earl, who in 1747 had been nominated for the earldom by his uncle the second Earl. He was succeeded by his son, the sixth Earl. He sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1793 to 1807 and from 1820 to 1821 and also served as Ambassador to Prussia. In the United Kingdom, representative peers were individuals elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of Ireland to represent them Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state

He died childless and was succeeded by his cousin, the seventh Earl. He was the son of General William Dalrymple. He also died without issue and was succeeded by his distant relative Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, 5th Baronet, of Killock, who became the eighth Earl of Stair (see below for earlier history of the baronetcy). Lord Stair was a General in the Army and also sat as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Edinburgh was a Constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United In 1841 he was created Baron Oxenfoord, of Cousland in the County of Edinburgh, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, with remainder to his brother. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most Peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801 when This peerage gave the Earls an automatic seat in the House of Lords. The Oxenfoord title was in honour of the title held by his wife's family, the Viscounts Oxfuird (or Oxenfoord). Viscount of Oxfuird is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1651 for James Makgill along with the subsidiary title of Lord Makgill of Cousland He was succeeded by his younger brother (in the barony of Oxenfoord according to the special remainder), the ninth Earl.

His son, the tenth Earl, represented Wigtownshire in the House of Commons as a Conservative and served as Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire. Wigtownshire, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire, Scotland. His grandson, the twelfth Earl, also sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire and served as Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire. On his death the titles passed to his son, the thirteenth Earl. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire. As of 2007 the titles are held by his eldest son, the fourteenth Earl, who succeeded in 1996. In May 2008 the fourteenth Earl was elected to sit as a Hereditary Cross-Bench Peer in the House of Lords following the death of Baroness Darcy d'Knayth

The Dalrymple Baronetcy, of Killock, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1698 for James Dalrymple, second son of the first Viscount of Stair. His great-grandson, the fourth Baronet, was a Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. He married his cousin Elizabeth Macgill, the heir and representative of the Viscounts of Oxfuird (or Oxenfoord). Their son, the aforementioned fifth Baronet, succeeded his kinsman as Earl of Stair in 1840. See above for further history of the baronetcy.

Another member of the Dalrymple family was Hew Dalrymple, third son of the first Viscount of Stair. Sir Hew Dalrymple Lord North Berwick (1652–1737 was a Scottish judge and politician He served as Lord President of the Session under the judicial title Lord North Berwick. In 1697 he was created a Baronet, of North Berwick in the County of Haddington, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. His second son Hew Dalrymple was the great-grandfather of Robert Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, who was created a Baronet, of Horn, and Logie Elphinstone in the County of Aberdeen, in 1828. See Dalrymple Baronets for more information on these branches of the family. There have been several baronetcies created for people with the surname Dalrymple.

The title of the earldom comes from the hamlet of Stair, the ancestral home of the Dalrymple family who settled there in the 12th century. The hamlet of Stair in Scotland nestles at the bottom of a glen beside the River Ayr at the north-west border of the 5376 acre (22 km² parish of Stair where the To facilitate the original title, in 1653 James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, had a portion of Ochiltree severed so as to create the Parish of Stair. James Dalrymple 1st Viscount of Stair (May 1619 - November 29, 1695) Scottish Lawyer and Statesman, was born at Ochiltree, spelt Uchletree in the Middle Ages, is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland near Auchinleck and Cumnock.

The family seat is Lochinch Castle, near Stranraer, Wigtownshire. Stranraer ( Gaelic: An t-Sròn Reamhar, ən̴̪ t̪ɾɔːn ɾãũ The County of Wigtown, or Wigtownshire ( Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Uige) is a Registration county in the south west of Scotland

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Viscounts of Stair (1690)

Earls of Stair (1703)

His Heir Apparent is his son, John James Thomas Dalrymple, styled Viscount Dalrymple, born January 3, 2008. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An heir apparent is an Heir who (short of a fundamental change in the situation cannot be displaced from inheriting the term is used in contrast to Heir presumptive Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

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