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36 DALHOUSIE electric telegraph established, the postal system reformed, &'c. K.T. 1 2 May 1 848. Pres. of the Royal Company of Archers 1 848-60. On 25 Aug. 1 849 he, having received the thanks of Pari., was cr. MARQUESS OF DAL- HOUSIE^ OF DALHOUSIE CASTLE, co. Edinburgh AND OF THE PUNJAUB.C) Gov. of the Bank of Scotland 1852 till his death. Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1853-60. He m., 21 Jan. 1836, at Tester, Susan Georgiana, ist da. of George (Hay), 8th Marquess of Tweeddale [S.], by Susan, da. of WiUiam (Montagu), 5th Duke of Manchester. She, who was I. 1 3 Mar. 1 8 1 7, was Lady of the Bedchamber Jan. to May 1842, and ij'. 6 May 1853, on board ship on passage from India, and was l>ur. at Cockpen.('=) He d. s.p.m., at Dalhousie Castle, 19, and was I?ur. 26 Dec. i860, at Cockpen, aged 48. M.I. On his death the Marquessate of Dalhousie [1849] and the Barony of Dalhousie [18 15] both became extinct, but the Scottish dignities devolved as below. EARLDOM [S.] XI. BARONY [S.] XII. II and 12. Fox (Maule, afterwards Maule Ramsay), Earl of Dalhousie, &c. [S.], also j,^ Baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar, co. Forfar; cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of William, ist Baron Panmure, ^fc, by his rst wife, Patricia Heron, da. of Gilbert Gordon, of Halieaths, which William was 2nd s. of the 8th and next br. to the 9th Earls of Dalhousie abovenamed. He was b. now, generally considered a glorious termination of Dalhousie's Governorship, and the horrible oppression from which it relieved the native population is alone a sufficient justification for it. It was not the annexation, but Lord Canning's having neglected the precaution of disarming that State, which nearly brought our Empire to grief. He showed no promise, either at school or college, but thereafter he developed " in an extraordinary degree, industry, energy, strong will, and self-confidence." Admiral Lord John Hay writes, " I have never known anyone who so fulfilled my idea of a great man — so truthful, so straightforward, so utterly incapable of meanness, so religious without fanaticism, so generous and kind-hearted, so determined without obstinacy." Probably the greatest ruler that England has given to India. His life, by Sir William Lee-Warner, was published in 1904. His Private Letters, ed. by J. G. A. Baird, were published in 19x0; they are excellent reading, and go to con- firm the above very favourable estimate of the writer. G.E.C. and V.G. (^) On 30 Mar. 1849, he writes to a friend about the prospective creation, " Let us have the old Scots sound back again, and let me be Dalhousie (not in spelling but in sound), like my forebears," and as to the local designation, "let it be of the Punjab ... a gentleman ought to wish to have a well made coat, and why not also a right sounding title." In a later letter he writes, "the pronunciation always was Dalhoosie. My father changed it, and even my mother always pronounced it so." V.G. C") For a list of peerage titles chosen to commemorate foreign achievements, see vol. iii, Appendix E. if) "Reserved, shy, and even nervous, she preferred the quiet of home-life to the homage coveted by leaders of society." (Sir William Lee- Warner's Life of Lord Dalhousie). V.G.