Arthur Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie

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Arthur Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie, about 1914

Arthur George Maule-Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie , JP ( September 4, 1878 Atkinson's Hotel, Torquay ; † December 23, 1928 at Brechin Castle , Angus ) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier.

Family and title

Ramsay was born the son of the politician John Ramsay and his wife Lady Ida Louisa Bennet. He had a younger brother and two younger sisters. At the age of nine, he lost both his mother and father within two days, thus taking over the hereditary titles of nobility. On July 14, 1903, he married Mary Adelaide Heathcote-Drummond, the daughter of Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster , and his wife, Lady Evelyn Elizabeth Gordon, at St. Michael's Church in Westminster . From this marriage two sons were born. With the death of Ramsay in 1928, the title of Earl of Dalhousie first passed to the older of the two, John , and after his death in 1950 to the younger Simon .

Career

Ramsay received his education at Eton College , which he attended between 1892 and 1895. He then moved to study at the University College of the University of Oxford before in the British Army came in. There he served from 1900 as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards . As part of his unit, he fought in the Second Boer War and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps. He was promoted to lieutenant and later to captain in 1901 and took part in World War I , where he was wounded. For his services in this he was promoted honorary colonel of the North Scottish Royal Garrison Artillery . In addition to his military activity, Ramsay worked as a justice of the peace in Forfarshire . He was also a member of the Conservative Party .

literature

  • Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish feudal Barons. Volume 1, Boydell & Brewer Inc, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 , p. 1021.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dalhousie, Ramsay of Dalhousie, and Dalhousie of Dalhousie Castle and of the Punjaub . In: George E. Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Ed.): The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct or dormant . tape 4 : Dacre to Dysart. St. Catherine Press, London 1916, pp. 38 .
  2. ↑ a b http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I110409&tree=Nixon (link not available)
predecessor Office successor
John William Ramsay Earl of Dalhousie
1887-1928 		John Gilbert Ramsay
personal data
SURNAME Ramsay, Arthur, 14th Earl of Dalhousie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalhousie, Arthur George Maule-Ramsay, 14th Earl of (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish nobleman and soldier
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Torquay
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1928
Place of death Brechin Castle