DALHOUSIE

James Andrew Brown-Ramsay , 1 Marquis of ( youngest child of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838 ). b. Dalhousie castle, co. Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838; P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843, pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland 12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848, left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852, Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849; constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13 Jany. 1853. d. Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. Sir C. Jackson’s Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration ; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 98–104; I.L.N. xiv , 36 (1849), portrait , xxii , 61 (1853), portrait .