Dalrymple, John

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Dalrymple,

John, English oculist, 1804-1852.

Dalrymple disease

Dalrymple sign - retraction of the upper eyelid in Graves disease, causing abnormal wideness of the palpebral fissure.

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The Gazetteer declared on 16 June 1790: "If the dispute with Spain should terminate in a war, the nation will profit from the valuable information given by Sir John Dalrymple in the Appendix to his Memoirs".

(9) Sir John Dalrymple to Lord Grenville, 20 October 1806, Huntington Library (San Marino, Calif.,), Stowe MSS, Admiralty Boxes 9 and 37; Charles F.

(25) John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1790, pp.315-9.

An Australian perspective on the English invasions of the Rio de la Plata in 1806 and 1807 (1)

It was reportedly the card used by Sir John Dalrymple, the Earl of Stair, to cryptically authorise the Glencoe Massacre.

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Campbell scrubbed MacDonald's name off the certificate and passed it to the Scottish Secretary, Sir John Dalrymple, the Master of Stair.

Slaughter of the innocents; The Glencoe Massacre, an act of cold-blooded evil, is the darkest and most shameful chapter in Scottish history

But Alistair says he was merely following the orders of the Scottish secretary of state at the time, Sir John Dalrymple.