James_Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone

James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone

James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone

British politician

Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet (20 November 1805 – 26 December 1886) was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1857 and 1880.

"The Admiral". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1878

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 on the death of his father. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire.[1]

Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone stood for parliament unsuccessfully at Greenock in 1852. He was elected Member of Parliament for Portsmouth in 1857 and held the seat until 1865 when he was defeated. He stood unsuccessfully at Aberdeenshire in 1866. At the 1868 general election he was re-elected for Portsmouth and held the seat until 1880.[2]

He died in 1886 at the age of 81.

Family

Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone married Mary Heron Maxwell, daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir John Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet, in April 1836.[1]

His younger brother Charles Elphinstone-Dalrymple (sic) FSA(Scot) (1817-1891) was a noted antiquarian, geneaologist and expert on topography. He was a member of the Spalding Club.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
  2. [2]
    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
  3. [3]
    Epitaphs and Inscriptions of Aberdeenshire p.15
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sir James Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, 2nd Baronet.
More information Parliament of the United Kingdom, Baronetage of the United Kingdom ...


Stub icon 1 Flag of EnglandPolitician icon

This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1800s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article James_Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.