Capt North Edward Frederick Hamilton Dalrymple of Bargany, CVO, MBE, DSC 1921-2014
Michael Rhodes
Michael Rhodes
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:01:06 UTC+1, Michael Rhodes wrote:
__.Capt North Edward Frederick Hamilton Dalrymple, CVO, MBE, DSC, who died suddenly at Ayr, 8 July, 2014, aged 93, was a scion of the Earls of Stair (Earl, cr 1703). Capt Hamilton Dalrymple, of Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire, a close friend of HM The Queen, was executive officer, Royal Yacht Britannia 1958-60,
He was born 17 Feb, 1922, a godson of the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor), son of Admiral Sir Frederick Hamilton Dalrymple, KCB 1890-1974, by his wife Gwendolen (d 1974), dau of Sir Cuthbert Peek, 2nd Baronet. A sister, Graeme Elizabeth, born in 1926, was a goddaughter of the then Duchess of York (afterwards Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) &c.
He married 1stly, 23 July, 1949, the Hon Mary Helen Colville (d 1981), daughter of the 1st Baron Clydesmuir, PC, GCIE, by whom he had issue; married 2ndly, 1983, Geraldine Inez Antoinette, widow of Maj Rowland Beech, MC, and dau of Maj Frank Harding.
He leaves two sons from his 1st marriage, North John Frederick, who served as a Page of Honour to the Queen Mother 1964-66, and James Hew Ronald.
Michael Rhodes
Having a bad day. he was born in 1922, so he was 92, and his surname isn't Hamilton Dalrymple but Dalrymple-Hamilton, with or without the hyphen??????
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EXTRACT:
Capt North Dalrymple-Hamilton was a naval officer who witnessed the sinking of the Bismarck and tackled an invasion of bats on the Britannia
Captain North Dalrymple-Hamilton, who has died aged 92, witnessed the demise of the German battleship Bismarck, and later served in the Royal Yacht Britannia. …
His father told him: “You are lucky to have seen a show like that [the Bismarck] after only being in the Navy for 18 months — I’ve had to wait 35 years.” …
North Edward Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton was born on February 17 1922 at Widworthy Court, near Honiton, Devon, the home of his grandmother, Lady Peek. He was son of Gwendolen Peek and the future Admiral Sir Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton of Bargany, though at the time of his birth his father was a lieutenant-commander in the battlecruiser Renown in Japan, accompanying the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII, on a cruise to the Far East. George V had been one of his father’s godparents, and the Prince in his turn became a godparent to North, who was educated at Eton . …
Dalrymple-Hamilton returned to Royal duties as executive officer of Britannia from 1958 to 1960 — one of his more unusual duties, while the Queen was visiting Canada, was to use a tennis racket to clear the royal apartments of an invasion of bats. …
He retired in 1970 to become custodian of the family estate at Bargany, in Ayrshire. He continued to serve the Royal family as a member of the Queen’s Bodyguard for Scotland, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Ayrshire in 1973 .
His first wife died in 1981, and in 1983 he married Antoinette “Tony” Beech (née Harding); she died in 2009, and he is survived by two sons of his first marriage.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11053695/Capt-North-Dalrymple-Hamilton-obituary.html