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Surname  Broun-Ramsay    
First names  Susan    
Rank / occupation  Wife & Marchioness of Dalhousie    
Death date  6 May 1853    
Place of death  At sea on her passage from India    
Source  Gentleman's Magazine    
Date  June 1853    
Page number  678    
Detail  At sea, on her passage from India, aged 36, the Most Hon. Susan Marchioness of Dalhousie, wife of the Governor-General of India. She was the eldest dau. of George 8th and present Marquess of Tweeddale, by Lady Susan Montagu, 3d dau. of William 6th Earl of Manchester: and was sister to the present Duchess of Wellington. She was married in 1836, and had issue two daughters, who survive her, and a son still-born in 1847. Her ladyship had travelled by sea from India in a weak state of health; and died from exhaustion, accelerated by sea-sickness, brought on by a gale which occurred on the ship approaching the shores of Britain.     
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