Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie

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Fox Maule (1838)

Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie , KT , GCB , PC (born April 22, 1801 at Brechin Castle , † July 6, 1874 ibid) was a British nobleman and politician.

He was born Fox Maule , inherited the title of 2nd Baron Panmure in 1852 and inherited the title of 11th Earl of Dalhousie in 1860, and in 1861 changed his family name to Maule-Ramsay .

family

He was born the eldest son of William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure , and Patricia Heron Gordon. He was the nephew of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie . He was baptized after Charles James Fox . In 1831 he married Montague Abercromby. There were no children from this marriage. When his father died in 1852, he inherited his title Baron Panmure . At the death of his cousin James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie , in 1860, he inherited his title Earl of Dalhousie .

Since he left no descendants, his barony died out, and his cousin George Ramsay inherited the earl title .

Political career

He served several years in the British Army and was subsequently in 1835 as MP for the County of Perthshire to the House of Commons voted, with himself as Whig against the conservative incumbent George Murray prevailed. He held this mandate until 1838. From 1838 to 1841 he then represented the constituency of Elgin Burghs as the successor to Andrew Leith Hay and from 1841 to 1852 the constituency of Perth . During the tenure of William Lamb (1835-1841) he was Secretary of State in the Home Office ( Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department ). Under John Russell he held the office of Secretary at War between 1846 and 1852 . For only 17 days, namely from February 5 to February 21, 1852, as President of the Board of Control, he was responsible for overseeing the British East India Company . He thus had the shortest term of office of any incumbent. From April 13, 1852 he was Baron Panmure member of the House of Lords and left the House of Commons. Ramsay was Minister of War in Lord Palmerston's government . During his tenure, the Crimean War ended. From 1853 until his death he was also one of the Great Officers of State as Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland .

In addition to his political offices, Ramsay was Rector of the University of Glasgow and Lord Lieutenant of Forfarshire from 1842 to 1844 .

Awards

further reading

  • George Brisbane Douglas, George Dalhousie Ramsay (Eds.): The Panmure papers; being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, second baron Panmure, afterwards eleventh earl of Dalhousie. BiblioBazaar, Charleston 2009, ISBN 978-1-116-81432-3 .
  • John Sweetman: Maule, Fox. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of January 2008, accessed May 27, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leslie Gilbert Pine: The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms. Heraldry Today, London 1972, ISBN 978-0-900455-23-0 . P. 1
  2. ↑ Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9 , Volume 1, p. 1020.
  3. ↑ Hon. Fox Maule im Hansard (English)
  4. ^ Fox Maule Ramsey Dalhousie, 11th . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Volume 7, London 1911, p. 767
  5. ↑ Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie on thepeerage.com
predecessor Office successor
James Broun-Ramsay Earl of Dalhousie
1860-1874 		George Ramsay
William Maule Baron Panmure
1852-1874 		Title expired
Sidney Herbert Secretary at War
1845-1852 		Robert Vernon
David Ogilvy Lord Lieutenant of Angus
1849–1874 		Claude Bowes-Lyon
John Hobhouse President of the Board of Control
1852 		John Charles Herries
James Broun-Ramsay Keeper of the Lord Seal of Scotland
1853–1874 		Schomberg Kerr
Henry Pelham-Clinton Secretary of State for War
1855-1858 		Jonathan Peel
personal data
SURNAME Maule-Ramsay, Fox, 11th Earl of Dalhousie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maule, Fox, 2nd Baron Panmure
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Brechin Castle
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1874
Place of death Brechin Castle