FOX

See also:

• MAULE

MAULE

See also:

• RAMSAY, ALLAN (1686-1758)
• RAMSAY, ALLAN (1713-1784)
• RAMSAY, ANDREW MICHAEL (1686-1743)
• RAMSAY, DAVID (1749—1815)
• RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM (1852– )
• RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL (185r– )

RAMSAY

See also:

• FOX MAULE RAMSAY DALHOUSIE
• DALHOUSIE, JAMES ANDREW BROUN RAMSAY, 1ST MARQUESS

DALHOUSIE  , 1th EARL of (18o1—1874), was the eldest son of William Ramsay Maule, 1st Baron Panmure (1771—1852), and a grandson of George, . 8th earl of Dalhousie . Born on the 22nd of April 18o1 and christened Fox as a compliment to the great Whig, he served for a term in the army, and then in 1835 entered the House of Commons as member for Perthshire . In Lord Melbourne's ministry (1835—1841) Maule was under-secretary for home affairs, and under Lord John Russell he was secretary-at-war from July 1846 to January 1852, when for two or three weeks he was president of the board of control . In April 1852 he became the 2nd Baron Panmure, and early in 1855 he joined Lord Palmerston's cabinet, filling the new office of secretary of state for war . Panmure held this office until February 1858, being at the war office during the concluding period of the Crimean War and having to meet a good deal of criticism, some of which was justified and some of which was not . In December 186o he succeeded his kinsman, the marquess of Dalhousie, as 11th earl of Dalhousie, and he died childless on the 6th of July 1874 . Always interested in church matters, Dalhousie was a prominent supporter of the Free Church of Scotland after the disruption of 1843 . On his death the barony became extinct, but his earldom passed to his cousin, George Ramsay (18o6—188o), an admiral who, in 1875, was created a-DALKEITH 767 peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Ramsay . George's grandson, Arthur George Maule Ramsay (b . 1878), became the 14th earl in 1887 . See the Panmure Papers, a selection from Panmure's correspondence, edited in two volumes (19o8), by Sir G .

Douglas, Bart., and Sir G . D . Ramsay . These numerous letters throw much light on the concluding stage of the Crimean War .