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EARLDOM [S. IV. BARONY [S.] V. i68: DALHOUSIE 33 4 and 5. George (Ramsay), Earl of Dal- HousiE, ^c. [S.], s. and h., styled Lord Ramsay, 1674-82, under age at his father's death. He d. unm., being killed in Holland by a Mr. Hamilton in 1696. EARLDOM [S.] V. BARONY [S.] VL [696. Admon. 26 June I7i9.() 5 and 6. William (Ramsay), Earl of Dalhousie, i£c. [S.], br. and h. Sheriff of co. Edinburgh 1703. He was a steady supporter of the Act of Union. Col. of the 3rd regt. of Guards, sent to support the Archduke Charles in his claim to the Kingdom of Spain; Brig. Gen. Jan. i7io.() He d. unm., Oct. 17 10, in Spain. EARLDOM [S.] VI. BARONY [S. VII. 1 7 10. 6 and 7. William (Ramsay), Earl of Dalhousie, ^'c. [S.], cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of the Hon. John Ramsay, a Capt. in the Scots Dutch 1694, by ( — ), da. of ( — ) Sinclair, of Whitekirk, which John was 2nd s. of the 2nd Earl. He was served h. to the late Earl 9 Feb. 1 7 11 . He was a Col. in the Army. He w., istly, about 1700, his cousin, Jean, da. of George (Ross), nth Lord Ross [S.], by his 2nd wife, Jean, da. of George (Ramsay), 2nd Earl of Dalhousie [S.]. He w., 2ndly, Janet, da. of ( — ) Martin. He d. 8 Dec. 1739, at Dalkeith, in his 79th year, and was bur. at Cockpen. [George Ramsay, styled Lord Ramsay, ist s. and h. ap. by ist wife, b. about 1700. He m. (cont. 9 and 16 Nov. 1726) Jean, sister of William, 1st Earl of Panmure [I.], only da. of the Hon. Harry Maule, by his ist wife, Mary, da. of William (Fleming), ist Earl of Wigton [S.], which Harry Maule was s. of the 2nd, and br. of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Panmure [S.]. He d. v.p., 25 May 1739, at Dalhousie, aged about 40. His widow m. John Strother Ker, of Littledean, co. Roxburgh. She d. 22 Apr. 1769, at Fowberry, Northumberland.] (^) He must be the Earl commemorated in the delightful couplet which Swift quotes, as illustrating bathos, in his essay on " The Art of Sinking in Poetry." "All hail Dalhoussy, thou great God of War, Lieutenant Colonel to the Earl of Mar." V.G. (^) His only sister, Elizabeth, Baroness Hawley [I.], sue. to most of his personal property, and d. Feb. 17 13, leaving issue. He had endeavoured to dispose of his honours and his real estates to her, but both such dispositions were invalid. 5