John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair

John Aymer Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair (9 October 1906 – 26 February 1996), styled Viscount Dalrymple from 1906 until 1961; was a British peer and soldier.

Early life

Dalrymple was born on 9 October 1906 at Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the eldest son of John Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair and Violet Evelyn Harford. His elder sister was Lady Jean Rankin, and his younger siblings were Lady Marion Violet Dalrymple, Capt. Hon. Hew North Dalrymple, Hon. Andrew William Henry Dalrymple (a founder of Chilton Aircraft), and Maj. Hon. Colin James Dalrymple.

Career In 1936, Viscount Dalrymple was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Wigtownshire. He was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1941.

Personal life On 14 January 1960, Lord Stair married the Queen's cousin, Davina Katherine Bowes-Lyon (1930–2017), a daughter of the Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon (the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck) and Rachel Pauline Clay (a daughter of Herbert Henry Spender-Clay). Together, they had three children: Hon. Michael Colin Dalrymple (b. 1965) he married Harriet Lucy Buxton, daughter of Sir Jocelyn Buxton, 7th Baronet and Ann Frances Smitherman, in 1991.

Lord Stair died at Lochinch Castle on 26 February 1996, aged 89, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John.