About John Dalrymple
Lived 1734 – 1779 (aged 44–45). John Dalrymple was a writer and political writer.
John Dalrymple (1734–1779) was a Scottish writer who twice served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1770 and 1779).
He wrote numerous political tracts, among which Answers for the Right Honourable John Dalrymple, Lord Provost of the city of Edinburgh, and others; to the petition of James Stoddart, Esq; late old Provost, and James Stirling, Esq; late one of the bailies of said city, and others is the most widely preserved.
John Taylor of Caroline, in his Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Governments of the United States, noted that he had read a "book [...] written by a Sir John Dalrymple, an Englishman sic , containing a proposition for a reunion between England and the United States, upon terms nearly similar to the constitution of Neuchattel" (p. 113).
He lived at Queen Street in Edinburgh's New Town.
He is buried in the Covenanters Prison section of Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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Who was John Dalrymple?
Scottish writer
When was John Dalrymple born?
John Dalrymple was born in 1734.
When did John Dalrymple die?
John Dalrymple died in 1779.
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John Dalrymple was a writer and political writer.
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