Baron Panmure

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William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure

Baron Panmure , of Brechin and Navar in the County of Forfar , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Award

The title was created on September 10, 1831 for longtime MP William Maule . He was born William Ramsay and was the second son of George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie . William Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure, was his father's maternal uncle. When he died childless in 1782, he inherited his family estate and, with a royal license, his last name Maule .

His son, the 2nd Baron, inherited the title 11th Earl of Dalhousie from his cousin James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie , in 1860 and took the surname Maule-Ramsay . When he died childless on July 6, 1874, the Panmure barony became extinct. The Earldom Dalhousie, however, fell to his cousin George Ramsay and still exists today.

List of Barons Panmure (1831)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : No. 18846, p. 1834 . September 9, 1831.