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  Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was finally, in 1805, appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, and was created Baron Barham, of Barham Court and Teston in the County of Kent, with a special remainder, failing his male issue, to his only daughter and her heirs male.
James Ramsay, who served as a surgeon under Middleton but later took holy orders and served in the West Indies, where he was exposed to the slave trade.
Ramsay's pamphlet was on the evils of the slave trade and especially affected Middleton's wife.
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 Clan Ramsay History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William de Ramsay was witness to the Coldinghame Charter in 1198 and to another in 1236.
William Ramsay, 5th Earl of Dalhousie, was a military officer with the rank of Brigadier General and was sent to the assistance of Archduke Charles in the struggle for the crown of Spain in 1705.
The 9th Earl of Dalhousie, George Ramsay, was Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia and Governor of Canada from 1819 to 1828.
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 Earl of Dalhousie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other titles associated with the earldom are: Lord Ramsay of Dalhousie (created 1618), Lord Ramsay and Carrington (1633) and Baron Ramsay of Glenmark (1875).
The former seat, Dalhousie Castle, is still owned by the Ramsay family but has been leased out since the early 20th century.
The Heir Apparent is Simon David Ramsay, Lord Ramsay (b.
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 The Barony of Macduff
In 1735 he was raised to the peerage with an Irish title as Baron Braco of Kilbryde, and in 1759 he was promoted to be Viscount Macduff and Earl Fife, which titles, although in the Irish Peerage, appeared to reinforce the family’s claims to descent from the Macduff Earls of Fife.
The arms of Alexander Ramsay of Mar, 7th Baron of Macduff, whose banner is illustrated on the left, quarter his father’s Ramsay arms with those of the Duke of Connaught whose daughter, Princess Patricia, was his mother.
The fl Ramsay eagle in the 1st and 4th quarters is quartered with Maule of Panmure.
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 1066 An obscure German Pirate the progenitor of the Ramsay
SIR ALEXANDER RAMSAY, the son of this baron, was one of the noblest and bravest of Scottish patriots.
Sir Alexander Ramsay was rewarded for the important service which he had rendered by its capture, by the appointment of governor of the castle, and was also nominated by the King (David II.), Sheriff of Teviotdale, a post which had been previously held by Sir William Douglas, the Knight of Liddesdale.
SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY, the son of this lamented patriot, inherited not a few of his father’s virtues, and, in one of his raids across the Border, he defeated and took prisoner Sir Thomas Grey, of Chillingham, governor of Norham Castle, an ancestor of Earl Grey and the Earl of Tankerville.
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 James Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess and 10th Earl of Dalhousie, British statesman and Indian administrator, was born at Daihousie Castle, Scotland, on the 22nd of April 1812.
He was the third son of George Ramsay 9th Earl of Dalhousie, one of Wellington's generals, who, after holding the highest offices in Canada, became commander-in-chief in India, and of his wife Christina Broun of Coalstoun, a lady of noble lineage and distinguished gifts.
Sir John Ramsay of Dalhousie (1580-1626), James VI's favorite, is famous for rescuing the king in the Gowrie conspiracy, and was created (1606) Viscount Haddington and Lord Ramsay of Barns (subsequently baron of Kingston and earl of Holderness in England).
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Baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar he assumed the arms and the name of Maule.
Fox was born at Brechin Castle, the eldest son of William, Baron Panmure.
The Barony of Panmure became extinct and the Earldom of Dalhousie passed to his cousin George Ramsay, Admiral R.N. An elaborate fountain was erected in his memory in St. Ninian's Square, Brechin.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ramsay,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ramsay, Allan RAMSAY, ALLAN [Ramsay, Allan] 1685?-1758, Scottish poet.
A Labour member of Parliament (1923-24, 1926-31), she served as secretary to the minister of labor (1924) and, under Ramsay MacDonald, as minister of labor (1929-31).
Jack Ramsay hits back: claiming he was deprived of a fair trial, the former MP sues his prosecutors.
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 Baron of Cromar (F.J. MacMurray-Nelson)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Baron MacMurray-Nelson is an active partner in international activities involved in the patronage of the Arts and Music and is currently involved in establishing Foundations targeting literacy amongst children in communities overwhelmed by poverty.
Subsequently he was awarded the Sword of Sweden and became a knight of San Fernando in Spain; the Grand Master of Freemasons from 1814-1816, MP for Banffshire, Lord of the Bedchamber, Lord Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen.
The Barony of Cromar, was transferred by assignation to the present Baron of Cromar, with consent from the trustees of deed of trust by Captain Alexander A A D M Ramsay of Mar in favour of F. MacMurray-Nelson.
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 The Clan Ramsay
Branches: Ramsay of Balmain, Ramsay of Bamff, Ramsay of Dalhousie.
The seat of the Ramsays is Dalhousie Castle in Midlothian.
Above the entrance to the castle, the Ramsay Coat of Arms is carved in stone.
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 Rayleigh John William Strutt 3rd Baron - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron (1842-1919), British mathematician, physicist, and Nobel laureate, known for his research in wave...
Argon was discovered in 1894 by the British scientists Sir William Ramsay and Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh.
Baltimore, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron (1637-1715), son of the 2nd baron, Cecilius Calvert.
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 MyFiles\Texts\clan_eng   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Anders Erik Ramsay's eldiest son Johan Carl (1675-1742) was the first general Ramsay in long line of general Ramsays in Finland.
Alexander Wilhelm's sonson, the Governor of Savolax and Carelia, colonelleutnant Anders Johan (1744-1811) is the forfather of all the Ramsays in Finland.
He got the title of baron in 1856 and is the forfather of all baron Ramsay's in the House of Nobility in Finland.
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 Chevalier Andrew Michael Ramsay
Leaving England for Holland in 1709, he soon moved to Cambrai where he lived with the eminent mystical theologian, Fénelon (1651-1715), Archbishop of Cambrai and later, in 1713 or 1714, to Blois where he was employed as secretary to the founder of Quietism, Madam Guyon.
Ramsay was once widely credited with introducing the Knights Templar lineage into what has been termed the Orders of Chivalry, and for creating several such degrees.
Masonic historian Henry Coil notes: "For one who reached such notoriety, Ramsay’s masonic career was unusually obscure." Other than his initiation into the Horn Tavern Lodge, Westminster, in 1730, and his appointment as Grand Orator in France, little else is known.
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 Scotland - Clans and Tartans of Scotland and the Scottish Highlands
The first of the name recorded in Scotland was Simon de Ramsay, from England, who was granted lands in Lothian by David I. He was the ancestor of the family Ramsays of Dalhousie.
The Ramsays of Bamff, Perthshire, are descended from Adam de Ramsay of Bamff, a baron in the thirteenth century.
In 1666 a baronetcy of Novia Scotia was conferred on Sir Gilbert Ramsay.
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 Hannelore Baron
Baron witnessed the destruction of her home and the beating of her father with a hammer.
Baron and her brother are sent to stay with the one remaining Jewish family in Dillingen.
Baron rejects her doctor’s suggestion of one year of chemotherapy and begins strict macrobiotic diet in an attempt to cure her cancer.
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Ramsay stated that Freemasonry begun among 'Crusader knights' who had formed themselves into 'lodges of St John', and that Scotland played an important part in the continuity of Freemasonry to his own day.
Like Ramsay, Baron von Hund was linked with the exiled Scottish 'court' surrounding Charles Edward Stuart, through which, he claimed, he had been initiated into a Templar Masonic Order in 1742 or 43.
Even more favourable to the Baron's case was that Baigent and Leigh were able to identify the 'Knight of the Red Feather' who had been the cause of so much derision on the part of von Hund's detractors.
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 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
Boyle, Roger, Baron Broghill and 1st earl of Orrery
Carew, George, Baron Carew of Clopton and earl of Totnes
Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron
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 Karl Gotthelf Hund, Baron von Hund und Alten-Grotkau
Karl Gotthelf Hund, Baron von Hund und Alten-Grotkau founded the Rite of Strict Observance in 1751, and promoted the idea of a Knights Templar lineage for Freemasonry.
At the age of twenty he was chamberlain to the Elector of Cologne, and subsequently chamberlain to the Elector of Saxony, a Councillor of State and an adviser to the Habsburg Emperor.
Like the Chevalier Ramsay, Baron von Hund was linked with the exiled Scottish 'court' surrounding Charles Edward Stuart, through which, he claimed, he had been initiated into a Templar Masonic Order in 1742.
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 thePeerage.com - Edith Peers-Williams and others
She was the daughter of Sir William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot of Bagot's Bromley and Hon.
She married Sir William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot of Bagot's Bromley, son of Sir William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot of Bagot's Bromley and Lady Louisa Legge, on 13 August 1851 in St.
She was the daughter of William Henry Fellowes, 2nd Baron de Ramsay of Ramsey Abbey and Lady Rosamond Jane Frances Spencer-Churchill.
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 Johanniter Order in Germany
The first Finnish knight to be admitted into the revived Bailiwick was Baron Anders Ramsay, born in 1799 and made a knight in 1870.
Two other knights of the SMHOM who were part of the conspiracy escaped execution, Philip, Baron von Boeselager (younger brother of Baron Georg and father of the present Hospitaller, Baron Albrecht von Boeselager) and Hyazinth, Count von Strachwitz.
The commander is Professor Nils Oker-Blom, the Domare is Baron George Ramsay, the Verkmastare is Herr Carl-Erik Estlander, the Treasurer is Baron Gustaf von Troil and the Secretary is Herr Eric Rotkirch; the councillors are Count Jan Aminoff, Dr Martin von Bonsdorff, Olof Bruncrona, and Carl-Christian Rosenbroijer.
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 Cindy's Family Tree
Second son of George Ramsay, eighth Earl of Dalhousie, Maule inheirited the Panmure lands under the will of his uncle William in 1787.
He was a friend of Fox and seems popularly to have been considered a libertine; but the Government thought differently, for they conferred a baronetcy upon him, and he became Lord Panmure in 1831.
William Maule, formerly Ramsay, second son of the 8th Earl of Dalhousie, and grandson of Jean Maule, daughter of the Hon.
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 The Barony of Braemar
The banner of the late Baron of Braemar speaks eloquently of Braemar’s royal connections, the second and third grand quarters featuring the arms of his mother, Lady Patricia, daughter of the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria.
The first and fourth grand quarters bear his paternal arms of Ramsay of Dalhousie quartering Maule of Panmure, the whole differenced by a bordure of pean.
The Barony of Braemar was sold to its new Baron shortly after being featured in the Baronage pages.
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 The Maules
JEAN, the eldest daughter of Harry Maule, had married, in 1726, George, Lord Ramsay, eldest son of William, fifth Earl of Dalhousie, and the Panmure estates, in terms of the entail, went to George, eighth Earl of Dalhousie, their second son, in life rent.
He was born in 1801, was educated at the Charterhouse, entered the army as an ensign, and after serving for several years in Canada on the staff of his uncle, the eighth Earl of Dalhousie, he retired in 1831 with the rank of captain.
The family titles and estates passed to Admiral George Ramsay, grandson of the eighth Earl, and are now possessed by his son, John William Ramsay, thirteenth Earl of Dalhousie, a young nobleman of great promise, who was a Lord-in-waiting to the Queen under Mr.
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 Historical perspective for Dalhousie Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1618 George Ramsay, eleventh in descent from the first Sir Alexander, was raised to the peerage as Lord Ramsay of Melrose, a title changed in the following year to that of Lord Ramsay of Dalhousie; and in 1633 his son and successor, William, was created Earl of Dalhousie and Baron Ramsay of Kerington.
Dalhousie, at Dalhousie received a call from the Queen and Prince Albert on 4 Sept. 1842, was GovernorGeneral of India from 1847 to 1855, and in 1849 was created Marquis of Dalhousie, of Dalhousie Castle and the Punjaub.
This title died with him, but those of Earl of Dalhousie and Baron Ramsay devolved on his cousin, Fox Maule, second Lord Panmure (1801-74), whose cousin and successor Admiral George Ramsay (1806-80) became a peer of the United Kingdom in 1875 as Baron Ramsay of Glenmark.
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 Russian Army Life in Finland in the 1870s and ‘80s Adlerberg Drake Timrot Alftan Sveaborg Helsingfors Swedish ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Their commander was General Baron Ramsay who had his “separate” staff where it appears correspondence was conducted in Swedish except for direct communications with the minister of war and regional headquarters.
General Bezak was the chief of the district’s few artillery units, the district intendant was Baron Kister, and the medical inspector—Henrici.
It was answered in French by the landmarshal (Baron Born, representative of the knightly class and nobility).
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 TIME.com: "No Retreat" -- Jun. 24, 1929 -- Page 1
Breaking the traditional oriental silence, last week, the grizzled Prime Minister, in his stocking feet, courteously received Correspondent Barnet Nover of the Buffalo News.
A Japanese of the old school, Baron Tanaka never wears shoes except on formal state occasions.
Baron Tanaka frowned, twiddled his toes, replied: "There has been no retreat, because there never was any necessity for retreating.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 110   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William of Effingham, Baron Howard 1st Howard, b.
William, Baron Ferrers of Chartley de Ferrers, b.
William, Baron Heytesbury 1st Ashe à Court, b.
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 Letter B - John H Marsh Maritime Research Centre - South African Maritime Museum - Cape Town
BARON DALMENY freighter 3536/1924 in abt 1928 & '36 (1960 scrapped)
BARON ELGIN freighter 4105/1933 in 1939 (1970 scrapped)
BARON RAMSAY freighter 3650/1929 in early & mid 1930s (1959 scrapped)
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 Free Information About Media Baron Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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 DALHOUSIE CHIEF OF RAMSAY
Lineage: The RAMSAYs settled in the Lothians in the 12th century.
Simundius (Simon) de Ramsay, first of the name on record in Scotland, witnessed a charter to the monks of Holyrood 1140 and another between 1189 an...
A stunning new study of the extant Orders of knighthood and merit of every state.
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