Fox Maule Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (22 April 1801 – 6 July 1874) was British politician. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... Events January - April January 1 - New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. ...

He was the eldest son of William Ramsay Maule, 1st Baron Panmure (1771–1852), 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, and then in 1835 entered the House of Commons as member for Perthshire. Events January 22 - Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to England. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Right Honourable Charles James Fox (January 24, 1749 - September 13, 1806) was an English politician. ... This article is about the British Whig party. ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... Perthshire is an traditional county in central Scotland, which extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ...

In the of ministry of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1835–1841) Ramsay was under-secretary for home affairs, and under Lord 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 became the 2nd Baron Panmure, and early in 1855 he joined Lord Palmerston's cabinet, filling the new office of secretary of state for war. Panmore held this office until February 1858, being at the war office during the concluding period of the Crimean War and having to meet a good deal of criticism, some of which was justified and some of which was not. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (March 15, 1779-November 24, 1848) was home secretary (1830-1834) and prime minister (1834 and 1835-1841) of Britain, and mentor of Queen Victoria. ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (August 18, 1792 - May 28, 1878), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a Whig politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (October 20, 1784 - October 18, 1865) was a British Prime Minister and Liberal politician. ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Crimean War lasted from 28 March 1854 to 1856. ...

In December 1860 he succeeded his kinsman, the marquess of Dalhousie, as 11th earl of Dalhousie, and he died childless on 6 July 1874. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... The title Earl of Dalhousie was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1633. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... Events January - April January 1 - New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. ...

Always interested in church matters, Dalhousie was a prominent supporter of the Free Church of Scotland after the it split from the Church of Scotland in the disruption of 1843. On his death the barony became extinct, but his earldom passed to his cousin, George Ramsay (1806–1880), an admiral who, in 1875, was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Ramsay. George's grandson, Arthur George Maule Ramsay (1878–1928), became the 14th earl in 1887. In one sense the Free Church of Scotland dated its existence from the Disruption of 1843, in another it claimed to be the rightful representative of the national Church of Scotland as it was reformed in 1560. ... The Church of Scotland is the national (established) church in Scotland. ... Events January 8 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony January 10 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British January 19 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope February 6 - Royal Navy victory off Santo Domingo - see:Action of 6 February 1806 March 23 - After traveling through the... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• 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.