biography
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Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of
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pronunciation:
[dalhowzee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1812–60)
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| biography:
| British Governor-General of India (1847–56), born at Dalhousie Castle, Midlothian, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became an MP (1837), Earl of Dalhousie (1838), and President of the Board of Trade (1845). In India (1847) he encouraged the development of railways and irrigation works. He annexed Satara (1847) and Punjab (1849), but the annexation of Oudh (1856) caused resentment which fuelled the 1857 rebellion. He was made a marquess in 1849, and retired through ill health in 1856. |
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