Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet
Admiral Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet, 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 from 1854 and then commanded during the Crimean War, and was decorated by the British and Turkish governments. He was promoted to captain in 1850 and commanded 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 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.