Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet

For other people named John Hay, see John Hay (disambiguation).

Sir John Dalrymple-Hay Bt, GCB, PC
"The retired list" Dalrymple-Hay as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, June 1875
Born	(1821-02-11)11 February 1821 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	28 January 1912(1912-01-28) (aged 90) London, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1834–1878
Rank	Admiral
Commands	HMS Indus HMS Hannibal HMS Victory HMS Columbine
Battles / wars	Sixth Xhosa War Oriental Crisis Battle of Tysami Battle of Tonkin River Crimean War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Admiral Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet, GCB, PC (11 February 1821 – 28 January 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and politician.

Early life

Born in Edinburgh, Hay-Dalrymple was the only child of Sir James Dalrymple Hay, 2nd Baronet, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John Shaw Heron-Maxwell, 4th Baronet. His mother died in childbirth. His father remarried in 1823 and had a further eight children. He was educated at Rugby School, and succeeded to the baronetcy on 19 March 1861.

Naval career

Dalrymple-Hay entered the Royal Navy in 1834. During his naval career he was involved in the Sixth Xhosa War in South Africa and the Oriental Crisis in Syria, being present when Beirut and St Jean d'Acre fell. He was also concerned with successful operations against Chinese pirates in the 1840s.

Dalrymple-Hay commanded HMS Victory from 1854 and then commanded HMS Hannibal during the Crimean War, and was decorated by the British and Turkish governments. He was promoted to captain in 1850 and commanded HMS Indus from 1856. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1866, before retiring as an admiral in March 1878. He was Fourth Naval Lord from 1866 to 1868.

Following the succession of King Edward VII, Dalrymple-Hay was among several retired admirals advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, and received the insignia in an investiture on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert outside Cowes on 15 August 1902, the day before the fleet review held there to mark the coronation.

Political career

Dalrymple-Hay was a Conservative politician. He served as a member of parliament (MP) for Wakefield 1862–1865. He lost an election at Tiverton on 28 February 1866. He represented Stamford 1866–1880. In 1880-1885 Admiral Hay was the MP for Wigtown Burghs. He was made a privy counsellor in 1874.

Family

Dalrymple-Hay married the Hon. Eliza Napier, daughter of William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier of Merchistoun, in 1847. They had three sons and six daughters. Lady Dalrymple-Hay died in 1901. Dalrymple-Hay survived her by eleven years and died in January 1912, aged 90. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second but eldest surviving son, William.

Works

• Memorandum: Rear-Admiral Sir John C. Dalrymple Hay's compulsory retirement from the British Navy (1st ed.), London: Edward Stanford, 1870, Wikidata Q28031289{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

References

• M. Stenton, ed. (1976). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume I 1832-1885. The Harvester Press.
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Sources

• O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Hay, John Charles Dalrymple" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Dalrymple-Hay