Mark Dalrymple Explained


Mark Dalrymple
Birth Date:13 May 1915
Birth Place:Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland
Burial Place:Inveresk Cemetery
Baronet of New Hailes
Nationality:Scottish
Parents:David Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet
Margaret Anna MacTaggart-Stewart

Sir Charles Mark Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet (13 May 1915  - 29 June 1971) was a Scottish peer and soldier.[1]

Life

He was born on 13 May 1915 the son of David Charles Herbert Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet of New Hailes, and his wife, Margaret Anna MacTaggart-Stewart of the MacTaggart-Stewart baronets.[2] He was raised at his ancestral home, Newhailes House, near Musselburgh.[3]

He served with the 4/5th battalion Royal Scots Territorials 1937 to 1940, then in 1941, during the Second World War, joined the Royal Air Force. In 1946 he transferred to the 2nd Tactical Air Force serving in post-war France and Germany. From 1949 to 1957 he served with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.[4]

He died on 29 June 1971. He is buried in Inveresk Cemetery. The grave lies in the north-west corner of the first western extension to the churchyard next to the graves of his father and grandfather.

Family

In 1946, he married Lady Antonia Marian Amy Isabel Stewart (1925-2017), daughter of Randolph Stewart, 12th Earl of Galloway and American heiress, Philippa Stewart, Countess of Galloway.

They had no children and the baronetcy became extinct with his death.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: European Heraldry :: House of Dalrymple . www.europeanheraldry.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150811072706/http://www.europeanheraldry.org/united-kingdom/families/families-f/house-dalrymple/ . 2015-08-11.
  2. Web site: Person Page.
  3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  4. Grave of Mark Dalrymple, Inveresk Cemetery
  5. Web site: Peerage News: The Lady Antonia Dalrymple 1925-2017. 25 July 2017.