Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet

Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (24 July 1692 – 24 February 1751) was Member of Parliament for Haddington Burghs and the Principal Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland.

From his mother's first marriage, he had an elder half-brother, Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet.

Among his siblings of his parents marriage were Andrew Dalrymple (who immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony giving up his right to the family title), Hugh Dalrymple-Murray-Kynynmound, and Janet Dalrymple (who married Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet and, after his death, Gen. James St Clair).

[5] Sir James succeeded his father in 1722 as the Member of Parliament for Haddington Burghs.

They lived at Newhailes, a country house between Edinburgh and Musselburgh bought by his father, and which Sir James extended.