DALRYMPLE, Sir Hew, 2nd Bt. (1712-90), of North Berwick, Haddington.

Sir Hew Dalrymple, unlike his brother, who inherited the Bargany estates, was not a wealthy man. Following a double return in 1741 for Haddington Burghs he was not declared elected till January 1742, though his name is included in a list of Members voting against Walpole’s candidate for the chairman of the elections committee on 16 Dec. 1741. One of the group of Scotch Members known as the Duke of Argyll’s gang, he voted against the Hanoverians in 1742 and 1744, but for them in 1746, when he was classed by the ministry as ‘doubtful’.John Drummond to Ld. Morton, 2 and 4 Dec. 1742, Morton mss, SRO. At the 1747 election he moved to the shire under an agreement with Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, the Duke of Argyll’s deputy in Scotland.See HADDINGTON BURGHS. Early in 1750 Richard Lyttelton wrote to George Grenville ‘to desire him to endeavour to get Sir Hugh Dalrymple to vote with us’ on a Bedfordshire turnpike bill, so that the Duke of Bedford might ‘see the part the Duke of Argyll takes upon this occasion’.Lyttelton to Bedford, 8 Feb. 1750, Bedford mss; Walpole to Mann, 25 Feb. 1750. His only recorded utterance in Parliament was on 22 Feb. 1751, when he successfully moved that the Prince of Wales’s apothecary might have leave to bleed Alexander Murray, the Jacobite, then a prisoner in Newgate by order of the House.Walpole, Mems. Geo. II, i. 48. He died 24 Nov. 1790.