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DALHOUSIE, FOX MAULE RAMSAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DALHOUSIE, See also:FOX See also:MAULE See also:RAMSAY , 1th See also:EARL of (18o1—1874), was the eldest son of See also:William Ramsay Maule, 1st See also:Baron Panmure (1771—1852), and a See also:grandson of See also:George,. 8th earl of Dalhousie. See also:Born on the 22nd of See also:April 18o1 and christened Fox as a compliment to the See also:great Whig, he served for a See also:term in the See also:army, and then in 1835 entered the See also:House of See also:Commons as member for See also:Perthshire. In See also:Lord See also:Melbourne's See also:ministry (1835—1841) Maule was under-secretary for See also:home affairs, and under Lord See also:John See also:Russell he was secretary-at-See also:war from See also:July 1846 to See also:January 1852, when for two or three See also:weeks he was See also:president of the See also:board of See also:control. In April 1852 he became the 2nd Baron Panmure, and See also:early in 1855 he joined Lord See also:Palmerston's See also:cabinet, filling the new See also:office of secretary of See also:state for war. Panmure held this office until See also:February 1858, being at the war office during the concluding See also:period of the See also:Crimean War and having to meet a See also:good See also:deal of See also:criticism, some of which was justified and some of which was not. In See also:December 186o he succeeded his kinsman, the See also:marquess of Dalhousie, as 11th earl of Dalhousie, and he died childless on the 6th of July 1874. Always interested in See also:church matters, Dalhousie was a prominent supporter of the See also:Free Church of See also:Scotland after the disruption of 1843. On his See also:death the See also:barony became See also:extinct, but his earldom passed to his See also:cousin, George Ramsay (18o6—188o), an See also:admiral who, in 1875, was created a-See also:DALKEITH 767 peer of the See also:United See also:Kingdom as Baron Ramsay. George's grandson, See also:Arthur George Maule Ramsay (b. 1878), became the 14th earl in 1887. See the Panmure Papers, a selection from Panmure's See also:correspondence, edited in two volumes (19o8), by See also:Sir G.

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

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