William (Ramsay) Ramsay Fifth Earl of Dalhousie (aft. 1674 - abt. 1710)

Born after 1674 in Dalhousie, Midlothian, Scotland

Ancestors

Died about Oct 1710 before about age 36 in Spain

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Biography

William Ramsay, 5th Earl of Dalhousie succeeded his brother in 1696. He was Col. of the 3rd Regt. of Guards, sent to support Archduke Charles in his claim to the Kingdom of Spain. He was promoted to Brig. Gen. in Jan 1710, and he d. Oct 1710, in Spain.^[1]

Research Notes

• Tried unsucccessfully disposing of his honours and estates to his sister Baroness Hawley, but this was proved invalid and he was succeeded by his 1st cousin once removed William Ramsay.

• Dalhousie, Earl of (S, 1633) Cracroft's Peerage

• The Peerage

Sources

1. ↑ The Complete Peerage, by G. E. Cockayne, edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs and H. Arthur Doubleday, vol.iv, London, 1916, p.33.

See also:

• Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906, Vol. III, p. 102