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DALHOUSIE 35 mander in Chief in the East Indies 1829-32. He »;., 14 May 1805, at Castlewigg, co. Wigton, Christian, da. and h. of Charles Broun, of Coulston, CO. Haddington. He d. at Dalhousie Castle, 21, and was bur. 29 Mar. 1838, at Cockpen, aged 67. (^) His widow, who was b. zi Feb. 1786, d. 22 Jan. 1839, suddenly, from the bursting of a blood vessel, at Dean Ramsay's house in Edinburgh. C") HS5!v' ;) [George Ramsay, styled Lord Ramsay, ist s. and h. ap., b. 3 Aug. 1806, at Dalhousie Castle. He was Capt. in the 26th Foot, and d. unm., v.p., 25 Oct. 1832, at Dalhousie Castle, aged 26.] EARLDOM [S.] ^ 10, 11, 2 and i. James Andrew -jr (Ramsay, afterwards Broun-Ramsay), Earl OF Dalhousie, ^0. [S.], also Baron Dal- BARONY [S.] HousiE of Dalhousie Castle [U.K.], Y| fi838. 3rd(') but only surv. s. and h., b. 22 Apr. 1 8 12, at Dalhousie Castle; styled Lord BARONY [U.K.] Ramsay 1832-38; ed. at Harrow 1825-27, TT matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 24 Oct. 1829, B.A. and 4th class 1833, M.A. 1838; MARQUESSATE. Grand Master of Freemasons [S.] 1836-38; M.P. (Conservative, and afterwards Peelite) . 1849 to i860. for CO. Haddington i837-38;C') P.C. 10 June 1843, ^"d Vice Pres. of the Board of Trade 1843-45, Pres. 1845-46; Capt. of Deal Castle 1843-48; Lord Clerk Register [S.] 1845-60; Elder Brother of the Trin. House 1846-60; Governor Gen. of India, gazetted 10 Aug. 1847, sworn 12 Jan. 1 848-56, (°) during which period four great Kingdoms, Pegu and the Punjab (by con- quest), and Nagpore and OudhO (by annexation), were added to our dominion, railways were planned on an enormous scale, 4,000 miles of (^) Bright Brown points out that he was a school-fellow and lifelong friend of Sir Walter Scott, who writes of him as "always steady, wise, and generous." V.G. C') Sir Walter Scott called her "an amiable, intelligent, and lively woman." {journal, 30 Mar. 1829). Dean Ramsay, in his Reminiscences mentions her acute observation, kind heart, and brilliant wit. V.G. (<=) The 2nd s., Charles, d. 8 July 1817, aged 10. V.G. C^) On 17 Mar. 1858 he writes, "I should call myself a Liberal-Conservative, or Conservative-Liberal; I should feel no difficulty in determining the measures I should support, but should be much put to it to decide on the men with whom I would politically associate myself." V.G. (^) Lord John Russell must have the credit of this appointment, all the greater as Dalhousie was not his political follower. At this time Lord Broughton writes in his Diary: "Dalhousie appears to me a sensible, unpretending man, of very good capacity, but without much instruction, and no brilliancy in his talk nor any attempt at it." V.G. (') "A deed [which he fully approved but] for which he was not answerable [the Home Authorities having announced that such was their policy], and which well nigh brought our Empire in the east to a setting; in blood and gloom." {Annual Register for i860). Yet the annexation of Oudh, 7 Feb. 1856, was then [1856], and is