- DALRYMPLE, ALEXANDER
- hydrographer to the Admiralty and the East India Company, born at New Hailes, and brother of Lord Hailes; produced many good maps (1737-1808).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
DALRYMPLE, ALEXANDER
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