b. 1801
d. 1874
Fox Maule (1801-74), the second Baron Panmure of the United Kingdom and eleventh earl
of Dalhousie, of the Scottish peerage, was born on 22 April 1801 at Brechin Castle,
Forfarshire. He sat in the House of Commons in 1835-37, 1838-41, and 1841-52, when
he was raised to the peerage. He served as an undersecretary of state from 1835 to
1841, becoming secretary of state for the War Office on 6 July 1846. He served in
that office until 6 February 1852 and returned to it in February 1855. It was under
Panmure's direction that the Crimean War ended. In December 1860, Panmure succeeded
to the earldom of Dalhousie; he died on 6 July 1874.
Dictionary of National Biography (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1900-) 13, p. 85. VI 6.2.