[2] In 1827 he graduated from the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently became an eye surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital.

This protein is often found in the blood and urine of patients with multiple myeloma.

He published his findings in a treatise called On the microscopic character of mollities ossium.

[2] The eponymous Dalrymple's sign is named after him, which is an abnormal wideness of the palpebral fissures in exophthalmic goiter.

He died on 2 May 1852 and was interred with his father William in the Terrace Catacombs on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.