William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure
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William Ramsay Maule, 1st Baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar (27 October 1771 – 13 April 1852) was a Scottish landowner and politician.


Life

He was born William Ramsay, the younger son of
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and his wife Elizabeth Glen. His father was the son of Jean Maule, granddaughter of George Maule, 2nd
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. William attended the High School in Edinburgh from 1780 to 1784 as a contemporary as
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. On the death of William Maule in 1782, under the terms of Maule's will, he adopted the surname Maule. In 1782, he succeeded to the Maule estates on the death of his great-uncle
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, and assumed by Royal licence the same year the additional surname and arms of Maule. He represented
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in Parliament in 1796 and again between 1805 and 1831, when Maule was raised to the peerage at the coronation of
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, as Baron Panmure, of Brechin and Navar in the County of Forfar, echoing his great-uncle's title. William lived for many years in the family home of
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and appears to have remodelled it in the fashionable Georgian style soon after his inheritance. Panmure was a patron of the artists commissioning several paintings from
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and paying for him to take on a student. In 1817, following an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a grant from the Government for
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, the widow of the poet
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, Lord Panmure for a number of years settled an annuity of £50 on her. He is buried in the churchyard of
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. The large obelisk marking his grave lies north west of the church.


Family

Lord Panmure married Patricia Heron Gordon on 1 December 1794. They had nine children, including: * Fox Maule Ramsay (1801–1874), later 2nd Baron Panmure and 11th Earl of Dalhousie. * Hon. Lauderdale Maule (1807–1854). Nevertheless, he was estranged from his wife, and quarrelled with his eldest son for siding with her. Patricia died in 1821, and on 4 June 1822, Maule married Elizabeth Barton. Through this connection he inherited the estates of
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and rebuilt the main house Barton House to a design by David Hamilton.Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker


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* 1771 births 1852 deaths Nobility from Midlothian 1 Maule, William 18th-century Scottish nobility 19th-century Scottish nobility Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1790–1796 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs who were granted peerages
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