George_Ramsay,_8th_Earl_of_Dalhousie

George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie

George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie

Scottish peer

George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie (1730 – 15 November 1787) was a Scottish peer. He served as a Lord of Police (1775–82) and the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and was a Scottish representative peer (1774–1787).[1]

Dalhousie was the second surviving son of George, Lord Ramsay (dvp 25 May 1783) and was the grandson of William Ramsay, 6th Earl of Dalhousie (1660 – 1739). His mother, Jean Maule, was the daughter of Hon. Harry Maule of Kellie and thus the niece of the attainted Earl of Panmure.[1]

He succeeded to the Maule estates with remainder to his second son, William Ramsay.[1]

Marriage and issue

Memorial to Lady Georgiana in St Mary's Church, Stamford

On 30 July 1767, he married Elizabeth Glen and they had 12 children:[2]

  • Lady Jane Ramsay (20 May – 11 September 1768)
  • Lady Elizabeth Ramsay (6 September 1769 – 17 June 1848), married Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 5th Baronet
  • George, Lord Ramsay (23 October 1770 – 21 March 1838), succeeded as 9th Earl
  • Hon. William Ramsay (27 October 1771 – 13 April 1852), later William Maule, created Baron Panmure
  • Lieut.-Gen. Hon. James Ramsay (1 October 1772 – 15 November 1837)
  • Lady Lucinda Maria (17 November 1773 – 15 June 1812)
  • Lieut.-Gen. Hon. John Ramsay (21 April 1775 – 28 June 1842)
  • Hon. Andrew Ramsay (6 May 1776 – 2 April 1848)
  • Hon. Henry Ramsay (7 September 1777 – 24 July 1808)
  • Lady Georgiana (1 February 1779 – 17 May 1794)
  • Lady Mary Ramsay (born 21 June 1780), married Capt. James Hay of Drumcar (who died 12 October 1822)
  • Hon. Capt. David Cassels Stewart Ramsay (27 December 1782 – 5 September 1801), died in West Indies

References

  1. [1]
    Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1019. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. [2]
    Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Hurst and Blackett. p. 163.
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