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Before the arrival of the Dunmores the settlement on the River Forth which housed the workers on the salt pans and later coal
miners was called Elphinstone Pans. In the mid 19th century Catherine Herbert widow of the 6th Earl thought it a miserable and
unpleasant place and set about replacing the three rows of miners cottages with an English style village with two ranges of houses
on either side of a village green. Over the next few years the present picturesque settlement with school, well, smithy and a number
of vernacular houses was constructed. Most of the work was completed by 1879 when the well was dedicated with the message:
THE SCHOOL AND VILLAGE OF DUNMORE TOGETHER WITH THIS WELL BUILT BY
CATHERINE HERBERT COUNTESS OF DUNMORE WERE COMPLETED A.D. 1879.
63. James Andrew, Lord Ramsay, afterwards 1st Marquis of Dalhousie 1836-38
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Broun-Ramsay%2C_1st_Marquess_of_Dalhousie
The Most Honourable James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, PC (April 22, 1812 – December 19, 1860)
was a British statesman, and a colonial administrator in India.
Born in Dalhousie Castle, Scotland, he crowded into his relatively short life conspicuous public service in England, and established
an unrivalled position among the master-builders of the Indian empire. Denounced on the eve of his death and to this day by some
as having failed to notice the signs of the mutiny of 1857, and even having aggravated the crisis by his overbearing self-confidence,
centralising activity, and reckless annexations.
To his supporters he stands out in the clear light of history as the far-sighted Governor-General who consolidated British rule in
India, laid the foundations of its later administration, and by his sound policy enabled his successors to stem the tide of rebellion.
To his critics, he stands out as the destroyer of both the East India Company's financial and military position by his reckless policies.
He laid the foundations of the Indian Mutiny and led the final transformation of money-making commercial operations in India into a
money-losing colonial administration. His critics also hold him responsible for re-creating the entire system of government in India on
a British model. He is also accused of transforming earlier open cultural and political attitudes toward India on the part of British
Administrators into the close-minded euopeans-only isolation of the late Victorian Raj.
Early life
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay was the third and youngest son of George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (1770 – 1838), one of
Wellington's generals, who, after being Governor General of Canada, became commander-in-chief in India, and of his wife Christina
Broun of Coalstoun, a lady of gentle lineage and distinguished gifts. From his father he inherited a vigorous self-reliance and a
family pride which urged him to prove worthy of the Ramsays who had not crawled through seven centuries of their country's history,
while to his mother he owed his high-bred courtesy and his deeply seated reverence for religion.
The 9th earl was in 1815 created Baron Dalhousie in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and had three sons, of whom the two
elder died young. His youngest son, the subject of this article, was small in stature, but his firm chiselled mouth, high forehead and
masterful manner gave him a dignity that none could overlook. Yet his early life gave little promise of the dominating force of his
character or of his ability to take full advantage of his splendid opportunities. Nor did those brought into closest intimacy with him,
whether at school or at Oxford, suspect the higher qualities of statesmanship which afterwards established his fame on so firm a
foundation.
Several years of his early boyhood were spent with his father and mother in Canada, reminiscences of which were still vivid with him
when Governor-General of India. Returning to Scotland he was prepared for Harrow, where he entered in 1825. Two years later he
was removed from school, his entire education being entrusted to the Rev. Mr Temple, incumbent of a quiet parish in Staffordshire.
To this gentleman he referred in later days as having taught him all he knew, and to his training he must have owed those habits of
regularity and that indomitable industry which marked his adult life.
In October 1829 he passed on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he worked fairly hard, won some distinction, and made many lifelong
friends. His studies, however, were so greatly interrupted by the protracted illness and death in 1832 of his only surviving brother,
that Lord Ramsay, as he then became, had to content himself with entering for a pass degree, though the examiners marked their
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