Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 2nd baronet (20 November 1805 – 26 December 1886) was a British Conservative Party

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1880.

Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone was the son of Sir Robert Dalrymple-Home-Elphinstone, 1st
Baronet and his wife Graeme Hepburn daughter of Colonel Hepburn, of Keith. He was educated at the Musselburgh Grammar School. He served as a naval officer for the Honourable East India Company for many years and retired as Commander in 1834. In 1848, he inherited the baronetcy

Elphinstone-Dalrymple Baronets

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 on the death of his father. He was a J.P.

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Aberdeenshire.

Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Greenock

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 in 1852. He was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Portsmouth

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 in 1857 and held the seat until 1865 when he was defeated. He stood unsuccessfully at Aberdeenshire

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 in 1866. At the 1868 general election

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 he was re-elected for Portsmouth and held the seat until 1880.

Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone died at the age of 81.

Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone married Mary Heron Maxwell, daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir John Heron Maxwell, 4th Baronet  in April 1836.

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