Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick

Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick (1652–1737) was a Scottish judge and politician.

On 3rd April 1696 he was elected to the court of directors of the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies.

He was created a baronet in the baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1698 and succeeded his father in the same year as Lord President of the Court of Session, taking the judicial title Lord North Berwick.

He planted the Act of Union Beech trees to commemorate the event and six of these survive to this day (2009).

[3] He married twice, to Marion Hamilton and Elizabeth Dundas and had a large family.