John James Hamilton Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair, KT

Order of the Thistle

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, DSO

Distinguished Service Order

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, DL

Deputy Lieutenant

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 (1 February 1879 – 4 November 1961) was the son of the 11th Earl of Stair

John Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair

John Hew North Gustav Henry Hamilton-Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair , was the son of John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair and his wife, Louisa Jane Henrietta Emily de Franquetot.-Family:...

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He fought in the Boer War

Boer War

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, and World War I

World War I

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, was captured by the Germans.
He was Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire

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 from 1906 to 1914.

Family

On 20 October 1904, he married Violet Evelyn Harford

Violet Dalrymple, Countess of Stair

Violet Evelyn Dalrymple, Countess of Stair , a descendant of the 2nd Earl of Rosse, was the daughter of Colonel Frederick Henry Harford and Florence Helen Isabella Parsons Violet Evelyn Dalrymple, Countess of Stair (2 July 1883 – 22 February 1968), a descendant of the 2nd Earl of Rosse, was the...

 (a descendant of the 2nd Earl of Rosse

Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse

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• Lady Jean Margaret Florence Dalrymple (born 1905 - died 2001)
• John Aymer Dalrymple, Viscount Dalrymple (later 13th Earl of Stair)
  John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair
  John Aymer Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair, KCVO, MBE, DL , the son of John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair and Violet Evelyn Harford. He served as Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtownshire from 1961 to 1983.-Family:...
  
   (born 9 October 1906 - died 26 February 1996)
• Lady Marion Violet "Snowy" Dalrymple (born 1 February 1908 - died 1995)
• Captain The Hon. Hew North Dalrymple (born 27 April 1910) - father of Robert Hew Dalrymple (born 10 November 1946) of Crailoch, Ballantrae
• Hon. Andrew William Henry Dalrymple (born 1914 - died 1945 in a plane crash)
• Major Colin James Dalrymple (born 1920)

As Lord High Commissioner

Lord Stair was Lord High Commissioner

Lord High Commissioner

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 to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland

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in 1927 and 1928.