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- Hew Dalrymple, Lord of Drunmore held the office of Lord of Session in 1726.1 He gained the title of Lord Drunmore [Scottish Law Lord] in 1726.1 He lived in Drummore, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
Hew Dalrymple of Drummore, the second son, was born 30th November 1690, and admitted advocate 18th November 1710. Being appointed a lord of session, he took his seat on the bench 29th December 1726, by the judicial title of Lord Drummore, and on 13th June 1745, was nominated a lord of justiciary.. He died at his seat of Drummore, in the county of Haddington, 18th June, 1755. Being at the time of his death governor of the Edinburgh Musical Society, the members of that body met in Mary's chapel on the 27th of the same month, and performed a concert as a token of respect for his lordship's memory, which was attended by a numerous company, all dressed in deep mourning. [Scots Mag. vol. xviii. p. 316.] Lord Woodhouselee, in his Life of Lord Kames (vol. i. p. 36) describes Lord Drummore as having "inherited the talents and genius of his forefathers; and as having been an acute and sound lawyer, and possessed of a ready, distinct and forcible, though not a polished elocution;" and as having had "a great command of wit and humour." By his wife, Miss Horn, heiress of Horn and Westhall, Aberdeenshire, he had twelve children. His second son, Hugh Horn Dalrymple of Westhall or Westerhall, died without issue. Robert, the third son, succeeded his brother, and took the name of Horn, also of Elphinstone, having married the daughter and heiress of Sir James Elphinstone of Logie in Aberdeenshire. [See ELPHINSTONE, surname of.] David, the fourth son, passed advocate 8th January 1743, and was appointed sheriff depute of Aberdeen in 1748. He was named a lord of session, and took his seat on the bench as Lord Westhall, 10th July 1777. He died 26th April 1784, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.
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