Social Victorians/People/Dalhousie

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Also Known As[edit | edit source]

  • Family name: Ramsay
  • Earl of Dalhousie
    • John William Maule Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (1880– 25 November 1887)
    • Arthur George Maule Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie (25 November 1887 – 23 December 1928)
  • Lord Ramsay
    • John William Maule Ramsay (1874-1880?)
    • Arthur George Maule Ramsay (1880 - 25 November 1887)

Demographics[edit | edit source]

  • Nationality:

Family[edit | edit source]

  • John William Maule Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (29 January 1847 – 25 November 1887)
  • Lady Ida Louisa Bennet Ramsay (c. 1857 — 24 November 1887)
  1. Arthur George Maule Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie (4 September 1878 – 23 December 1928)
  2. Patrick Ramsay
  3. Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay


  • Arthur George Maule Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie (4 September 1878 – 23 December 1928)
  • Mary Adelaide Heathcote-Drummond (25 April 1878 – 23 May 1960)[1]
    1. John Gilbert Ramsay, 15th Earl of Dalhousie (25 July 1904 – 3 May 1950)
    2. Lady Ida Mary Ramsay (29 January 1906 – )
    3. Lady Jean Maule Ramsay (16 April 1909 – 16 January 1997)
    4. Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie (17 October 1914 – 15 July 1999)

Relations[edit | edit source]

  • Mary Adelaide Heathcote-Drummond's father was Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, later 1st Earl of Ancaster.

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies[edit | edit source]

Organizations[edit | edit source]

  • Clan Ramsay

John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie[edit | edit source]

  • Liberal party
  • Balliol College, Oxford
  • Royal Navy
  • Queen Victoria's Household: Equerry 1874–1876 to Victoria's son Alfred (Affie), when he was Duke of Edinburgh; Extra Equerry 1876–1880
  • House of Commons (part of 1880)
  • House of Lords, 1880–
  • Gladstone's governments, various positions

Timeline[edit | edit source]

1903 July 14, Arthur George Maule Ramsay, 14th Earl of Dalhousie and Mary A. Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby married.[1]

Questions and Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. Ida Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie died at 30 (or so), and John Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie at 40, 24 and 25 November 1887. What happened?

Bibliography[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Lady Mary Adelaide Heathcote-Drummond." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-07-11. https://www.thepeerage.com/p1133.htm#i11326.