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• Crest: A rock proper
• Motto: Firm
• Tartan: Dalrymple of Castleton
• Arms: Quarterly, 1st, Or, on a slatire Azure nine lozenges of the Firls (Daltymple); 2nd, Or, a chevron checky Sable and Argent between three water bogets of the Second (Ross); 3rd grand quarter, counterquartered; (1) & (IV), Quarterly, 1st & 4th, Gules, three cinqufoils Ermine; 2nd & 3rd, Argent, a galley, sails furles, Sable; the whole within a bordure compony Argent and Azure, the first charges with hearts Gules, the second with mullets Argent (Hamilton); (II) & (III), Gules, on a fess between three crescents Or as many mullets Azure (De Franqutot); 4th grand quarter, counterquartered; (i) & (IV), Gules on a chevron between three cinquefoils Argent, as many rounded buckles Azure (Hamilton); (II) & (III), Gules three martlets Argent (Makgill)

The first record of someone having the Dalrymple name was in May 1371 from a charter of Robert II. Three generations of Dalyrymples are mentioned in this charter.

William de Dalrymple acquired the lands of Stair-Montgomery in Ayreshire in 1540 because of his marriage to Agnes Kennedy. She was the granddaughter of Malcolm de Carrick de Stair. This made him the first Dalrymple of Stair.

James Dalrymple of Stair was one of the most well known lawyers and statesman of his time and eventually became Viscount Stair. At the Restoration, Charles II knighed him and made him one of the Lords of Session. He later resigned and moved to the Netherlands but returned later then died in 1695.

The present Earl is captain general of the Royal Company of Archers and Gold Stick-in-Waiting to the Queen.