George Dalhousie Ramsay
| George Dalhousie Ramsay | |||||||
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| Residence | War Office Pall Mall [1862] | ||||||
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aristocracy political administrative | ||||||
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the tenth Earl. He was an influential Tory politician and also served as Governor-General of India from 1847 to 1856. In 1849 he was created Marquess of Dalhousie, of Dalhousie Castle in the County of Edinburgh and of the Punjab, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Dalhousie assumed the additional surname of Broun of Colstoun upon succeeding to the Colstoun estates.
He was a prominent Liberal politician and notably held office as Secretary of State for War. On succeeding to the earldom in 1860 he assumed the surname and arms of Ramsay of Dalhousie after that of Maule