He had a younger son of the same name with himself, Hew Dalrymple, who passed advocate on the 18th of November 1710, and in December 1726 was made a lord of session under the titular designation of Lord Drumrnore. He was also some time afterwards appointed a lord of justiciary on Erskine of Dreg resignation, and died in the possession of both offices in June 1755, with the character of an acute and learned lawyer, and a very honourable man. By his wife, Anne Horn, heiress of the estates of Horn and Westhall in the county of Aberdeen, he left a large family, one of whom was David Dalrymple of Westhall, who passed advocate in the beginning of 1743, in the twenty-third year of his age, and in 1746 was chosen procurator (or advocate) to the Church of Scotland. In 1748 he was also constituted sheriff depute of the shire of Aberdeen, and he continued in both offices till July 1777, when he was made a lord of session under the title of Lord Westhall. His elder brother assumed his maternal surname of Horn, and marrying Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir James Elphinstone of Logie, assumed the additional surname of Elphinstone, and had by his wife a son, who on the 16th of June 1828 was created a baronet by the style and title of Sir Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, Bart., of Horn and Logie Elphinetone. A younger branch of the same family had a few years before been raised to the like dignity in the person of Sir Hugh liliteford Dalrymple of Higbmark, in the county of Wigton, who was created a baronet on the 6th of May 1815.
The youngest eon of the first Viscount Stair was SirDarid Dalrymple of Hailee,BarL, so created on the 8th of May 1700. He passed advocate on the 3rd of November 1688, and in 1709 was appointed lord-advocate of Scotland in the room of Sir James Stewart, who was however re instated in the office in the year 1711. On Stewart'a death Sir David was again appointed lord-advocate, and continued till May 1720, when he was succeeded by Robert Dundee of Arniston, who also succeeded him on his decease, the following year, in his place of dean of the Faculty of Advocates. His eldest son was Sir James Dalrymple of Miles, Bart., some time auditor of Exchequer; and by his wife, Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the sixth Earl of Haddington, the father of a numerous family. The eldest of then was the celebrated judge and antiquary, Sin DAVID DALRYMPLE, better known by his titular designation of LORD Hamm, was born at Edinburgh on the 28th of October 1726, and after acquiring the rudiments of his education in his native place, was sent to Eton, where, with a competent degree of learning, lie imbibed that classical taste, and partiality for the manners and customs of England, which distinguished the subsequent periods of his life. From Eton be returned to Edinburgh, whence, after. passing through the usual course at the university there, he was sent to Utrecht to study the civil law; and on his return in 1746 he prepared for the bar, and passed advocate on the 24th of February 1748. After eighteen years of professional life he was raised to the bench of the Court of Session; and ten years after he was also, on the resignation of Lord Coalaton, to whose only daughter he was married in October 1763, appointed a lord of justiciary. As a judge, his accuracy, diligence, and dignity were eminently conspicuous; but it is on the broader basis of literary merit that his great fame rests. The earliest of his publications appears to have been sacred poems, being a collec tion of translations and paraphrases from Scripture by various authors, Edinb., 1751. His next was the Wisdom of Solomon and the Book of Ecclesiastes,' 1755. The lame year he wrote in The World ' 1103, 140 and 147, and the next year No. 204, in which year also he published ' Select Discourses,' by John Smith of Cambridge, with a preface and learned notes. The year following, 1757, he republished, with notes, A Discourse of the unnatural and vile Conspiracy attempted upon the King by the Earl of Gowry.' In the month of
October 1761, two vessels being wrecked on the shore between Dunbar and North Berwick, and pillaged by the country people, Sir David published a sermon from Acta xxviii. 2 —" The barbarous people !showed us no little kindness." In 1762 he published from the press of Foulis of Glasgow, 'Memorials aud Letters relating to the history of Britain In the reign of James I. of England,' with a preface and notes. From the same press, in 1765, lie published the Works of the ever memorable Mr. John Hailes, of Eton,' in three vole. ; sod the lame year at Edinburgh the first specimen of a book entitled Ace compendious books of Godly and Spiritual Songs.' The year following be published ' Memorials and Letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of Charles from the originals collected by Wodrow; an 'Account of the Preservation of Charles IL after the battle of Worcester,' drawn up by himself; and the Secret Correspondence between Sir Robert Cecil and Jamea VI.' The next year be published a catalogue of the lords of session from the institution of the court, with historical notes; and the following year The Private Correspondence of Bishop Atterbury and his Friends in 1725: In 1769 he published, first, 'An Examination of some of the arguments for the high antiquity of the Regiam Majestatem, and an inquiry into the authenticity of the Leges Malcolmi ;" Historical Memoirs concerning the provincial councils of the Scottish clergy, from the earlist acconnt to the (era of the Reformation ;' and third, ' Canons of the Church of Scotland, drawn up in the provincial coun cils held at Perth in the years 1242 and 1269: And in 1770 he pub lished some ancient Scottish poems from manuscripts, with a number of curious notes and a glossary. His next performance was the additional case of Elizabeth, claiming the title of Countesa of Sutherland: a singularly able paper, which was subscribed by Alexander Wedderbure, afterwards Lord Chancellor of England, and Sir Adam Ferguson, but well known to be the work of Lord Hailes. Iu 1773 Sir David published 'Remarks on the History of Scotland ;' and in 1776, 'Letters from Hubert Languet to Sir Philip Sydney.' This last year also ho published his Annals of Scotland, from the time of Malcolm Canmore to King Robert L ;" Tables of the succession of the Scots Kings' during the same period; and in 1779 his' Annals of Scotland, from the accession of Bruce to the accession of the House of Stuart.' In the above year, 1776, he published another work of much erudition; namely, 'An account of the Martyrs of Smyrna and Lyons in the second century,' with notes. This was intended as the first volume of 'Remains of Christian Antiquity;' the second volume of that work appeared in 1778, and the third in 1780. The next year he published ' Octavius,' a dialogue by Marcus Minucius Felix, with notes and illustrations; and the year following, the treatise by Lactantius of the manner in which the persecutors died, illustrated in liko manuer by various notes. In 1783 appeared his 'Disquisitions concerning the Antiquity of the Christian Church;' and in 1786, 'An inquiry into the secondary causes which Mr. Gibbon has assigned for the rapid growth of Christianity.' After this followed some biogra phical sketches, in separate works and at different times, but all intended as a specimen of a Biographia Scotica. In 1788 he published from manuscripts the opinions of Sarah, duchess of Marlborough ; and in 1700 a translation of the address of Q. Septim. Tertullua to Scapula Tertullus, proconsul of Africa, with notes, to illustrate the state of the church in early times. This was the last work which Lord Hailes lived to publish. On the 29th of November 1792 he expired, in the sixty.sixth year of his age, the baronetcy, for want of male issue, descending to his nephew James, eldest eau of John Dalrymple, Esq., some time lord provost of Edinburgh, who was brother of Sir David, and also brother of