Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie

The Right Honourable The Earl of Dalhousie KT, GCB, PC
Secretary of State for War
In office 8 February 1855 – 21 February 1858
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	The Viscount Palmerston
Preceded by	The Duke of Newcastle
Succeeded by	Jonathan Peel
Personal details
Born	22 April 1801 (1801-04-22)
Died	6 July 1874 (1874-07-07)
Nationality	British
Political party	Whig Liberal
Spouse(s)	Hon. Montague Abercromby (1807-1853)
Alma mater	None

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 Earl of Dalhousie after 1860, was a British politician.

Background

Dalhousie was the eldest son of William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure, and a grandson of George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie. Christened Fox as a compliment to Charles James Fox, the great Whig, he served for a term in the Army.

Political career

In 1835 he 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 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).

Marriage

Lord Dalhousie married the Hon. Montague, daughter of George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby, in 1831. They had no children. She died in November 1853, aged 46. Lord Dalhousie died July 1874, aged 73. On his death, the barony of Panmure became extinct, but the earldom of Dalhousie (and its subsidiary titles) passed to his cousin, George Ramsay.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• 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.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Dalhousie

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir George Murray	Member of Parliament for Perthshire 1835–1837	Succeeded by Viscount Stormont
Preceded by Sir Andrew Leith Hay	Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs 1838–1841	Succeeded by Sir Andrew Leith Hay
Preceded by David Greig	Member of Parliament for Perth 1841–1852	Succeeded by Arthur Kinnaird
Political offices
Preceded by William Gregson	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1835–1841	Succeeded by Lord Seymour
Preceded by Richard Lalor Sheil	Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1841	Succeeded by William Ewart Gladstone
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 Duke of Newcastle	Secretary of State for War 1855–1858	Succeeded by Jonathan Peel
	Secretary at War 1855–1858
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Airlie	Lord Lieutenant of Angus 1849 – 1874	Succeeded by The Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Preceded by The Viscount Melville	Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland 1853–1874	Succeeded by The Marquess of Lothian
Academic offices
Preceded by The Marquess of Breadalbane	Rector of the University of Glasgow 1842 – 1844	Succeeded by Andrew Rutherford
Masonic offices
Preceded by John Whyte-Melville	Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland 1867–1870	Succeeded by The Earl of Rosslyn
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by James Broun-Ramsay	Earl of Dalhousie 1860–1874	Succeeded by George Ramsay
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Maule	Baron Panmure 1852–1874	Extinct