Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie

Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie KT GCVO GBE MC (* 17th October 1914 ; † 15. July 1999 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Simon Ramsey, second son of Arthur Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie and Mary Adelaide Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, completed his education at Eton College and Christ Church College . During the Second World War he did his military service with Royal Highland Regiment "The Black Watch" and received the Military Cross for his military services .

He was first elected to the House of Commons as a candidate of the Conservative Party in 1945 and represented the interests of the Forfarshire constituency in this until 1950 . He was from 1946 to 1948 "cheerleader" ( Whip ) the conservative lower house faction .

After the death of his older brother John Ramsay, 15th Earl of Dalhousie , he inherited his title in 1950. This also made him a member of the House of Lords .

Between 1957 and 1963 he was Governor General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . The federation officially fell apart on December 31, 1963, when Northern Rhodesia gained independence from Great Britain as Zambia and Nyasaland as Malawi . The remaining area of Southern Rhodesia , which today forms Zimbabwe , was then called Rhodesia .

After his return to Great Britain he took on some honorary posts and was Lord Chamberlain of the Household of the "Queen Mum" Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon between 1965 and 1992 . In addition, he was from 1967 until his replacement by David Ogilvy, 8th Earl of Airlie , in 1989 Lord Lieutenant of Angus and thus the official representative of Queen Elizabeth II in a part of Scotland .

He was also Chancellor of the University of Dundee between 1977 and 1992 .

Ramsay was a lieutenant in the Royal Company of Archers and was inducted into the Thistle Order in 1971. His titles passed to his eldest son James on his death .

Web links and sources

• Simon Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie on thepeerage.com , accessed August 12, 2015.
• Family tree (geneall.net)
• The Earls of Dalhousie (cracroftspeerage.co.uk)
• THE INDEPENDENT: Obituary: The Earl of Dalhousie (obituary, September 23, 1999)
• Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 296

predecessor	Office	successor
John Gilbert Ramsay	Earl of Dalhousie 1950-1999	James Hubert Ramsay