Hew Dalrymple (advocate)

Captain Hew Dalrymple (sometimes spelt Hugh; ca. 1740 – 1774) was a Scottish advocate and poet who served as Attorney General of Grenada.[1]

His youngest daughter was the courtesan Grace Elliott.[2]

Dalrymple graduated LLD in 1771. He was involved in the great Douglas case.[3]

Works
  • Dalrymple, Hew (1759). "Woodstock Park: an Elegy". - an elegy for Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough (1706-1758) who commanded the Raid on St Malo in 1758
  • Dalrymple, Hew (1763–70). "Rodondo; or the State Jugglers". Scots Magazine. - a defence of Scotland during the Bute administration
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References
  1. Radcliffe, David H. "Hugh Dalrymple (1740 ca.-1774)". English Poetry 1579-1830. Virginia Tech. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  2. Oxford Journals (1866). Notes and queries. Oxford University Press.
  3. Alger, John Goldworth (1889). "Elliott, Grace Dalrymple" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 17. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Further reading
  • Eliott, Grace, in Journal of my Life (1859)
  • Forster, Harold, Supplements to Dodsley's Collection of Poems (1980) 102
  • Notes Queries 1st Series 9:589



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