James Dunlop of Dunlop


Lieutenant General James Wallace Dunlop 21st of that ilk was a Scottish Laird and British military officer who distinguished himself in India and the Napoleonic Wars. Dunlop led the left column at the Battle of Seringapatam and commanded the 5th Division at Battle of Fuentes de Ooro. The Duke of Wellington regarded his retirement from the military as ...a real loss though Dunlop subsequently went on to have a successful career in politics.

James Wallace Dunlop was born onJune 1759, the fifth son of John Dunlop of Dunlop, Ayrshire and Frances Anna Dunlop , the daughter of Sir Thomas Wallace of Cragie. In 1784 he became the 21st Dunlop when his father transferred the estates to him. He married Julia Baille, the daughter of a Monkton landowner, onJuly 1802. They had five children, three sons and two daughters. Dunlop died at his family home Newfield, Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire, onMarch 1832.

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