Brief profile of R.C.Ramsay by Don Ambrose

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Player:

RC Ramsay

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RAMSAY, Robert Christian.
Amateur.
Born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 20th December 1861.
Died at Howletts, Bekesbourne, Kent, 25th June 1957.
The son of Robert Ramsay, of Howletts, near Canterbury, Kent, he was educated at Harrow, where he was a member of the cricket eleven 1879-80 and the football eleven 1878-79, being captain in 1879. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, playing cricket for the University 1881-82 and winning his blue in 1882. He played four first-class matches for Somerset in 1882. He emigrated to Australia and was for a time sheep-farming at Cambooya, Queensland. He played cricket for Queensland but not in first-class matches. His brother M.F. played for the MCC and Queensland.
In the 1881 Census he is with his father Robert, aged 63 born at Calcutta, landowner in Australia, and his mother Susan, aged 53 born in Scotland. Marmaduke Francis aged 20 and Robert Christian aged 19 are two sons both undergraduates at Cambridge. Two daughters, Nina Mary aged 14 and Edith Patricia aged 10, were both born in Queensland. There is a visitor, Percival Septimus Hodgson, a 22 year old vinegar brewer, born in New South Wales. There is a German governess and a Swiss Butler plus six other domestic servants.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)