Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie
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Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GCB, PC (22 April 1801–6 July 1874), known as Fox Maule before 1852, as The Lord Panmure between 1852 and 1860 and as The Earl of Dalhousie after 1860, was a British politician.
Fox Maule was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Panmure (1771–1852), and a grandson of the 8th Earl of Dalhousie. Christened Fox as a compliment to Charles James Fox, the great Whig, he served for a term in the Army, and then in 1835 entered the House of Commons as member for Perthshire.
In the ministry of Lord Melbourne (1835–1841), Maule was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and under Lord John Russell, he was Secretary at War from July 1846 to January 1852, when for two or three weeks he was President of the Board of Control. In April 1852, he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Panmure. In early 1855, he joined Lord Palmerston's cabinet, filling the new office of Secretary of State for War. Lord Panmure held this office until February 1858. He was at the War Office during the concluding period of the Crimean War, and met a good deal of criticism. He was Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1853 until his death.
Always interested in church matters, Dalhousie was a prominent supporter of the Free Church of Scotland after the it split from the Church of Scotland in the disruption of 1843.
In December 1860, he succeeded his kinsman, the 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, as 11th Earl of Dalhousie. He shortly afterwards changed his surname to "Maule-Ramsay" (his father had changed his surname to "Maule" from the family's patronymic "Ramsay" before being created Baron Panmure). He died childless on 6 July 1874. On his death, the Barony of Panmure became extinct, but the Earldom of Dalhousie (and its subsidiary titles) passed to his cousin, George Ramsay (1806–1880), an Admiral who, in 1875, was created a Peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Ramsay.
| Preceded by: Sidney Herbert |
Secretary at War 1846–1852 |
Succeeded by: Robert Vernon Smith |
| Preceded by: Sir John Hobhouse, Bt |
President of the Board of Control 1852 |
Succeeded by: John Charles Herries |
| Preceded by: The Viscount Melville |
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland 1853–1874 |
Succeeded by: The Marquess of Lothian |
| Preceded by: The Duke of Newcastle |
Secretary of State for War 1855–1858 |
Succeeded by: Jonathan Peel |
| Secretary at War 1855–1858 |
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| Preceded by: John Whyte-Melville |
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1867–1870 |
Succeeded by: The Earl of Rosslyn |
| Preceded by: James Broun-Ramsay |
Earl of Dalhousie 1860-1874 |
Succeeded by: George Ramsay |
| Preceded by: William Maule |
Baron Panmure 1852-1874 |
Succeeded by: Title extinct |
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- G. Douglas and G. D. Ramsay (editors), Panmure Papers, 1908. These numerous letters from Panmure's correspondence throw much light on the concluding stage of the Crimean War.
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