North Dalrymple, 9th Earl of Stair

North Hamilton Dalrymple, 9th Earl of Stair (1776 – 9 November 1864) was a Scottish aristocrat.

Early life Dalrymple was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1776. He was the second son of Sir John Dalrymple of Cousland, 4th Baronet (d. 1810), a Baron of the Court of the Exchequer of Scotland, and Elizabeth Hamilton-Makgill. Among his siblings were Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple-Hamilton, who married Augustin-Gustave de Franquetot, 3rd Duke of Coigny. His elder brother, John Hamilton Dalrymple, succeeded in to their father's baronetcy and inherited Oxenfoord Castle in 1810, and to the earldom of Stair upon the death of their second cousin, John Dalrymple, 7th Earl of Stair in March 1840.

Career

Dalrymple was a merchant who lived at Bhavnagar, India. Before her death in 1828, they were the parents of:

Lord Stair died at Oxenfoord Castle on 9 November 1864 and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, John.