ANDREW

See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

MICHAEL

See also:

• RAMSAY, ALLAN (1686-1758)
• RAMSAY, ALLAN (1713-1784)
• ANDREW MICHAEL RAMSAY (1686-1743)
• RAMSAY, DAVID (1749—1815)
• RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM (1852– )
• RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL (185r– )

RAMSAY (1686-1743)  , French writer, of Scottish birth, commonly called the " Chevalier Ramsay," was born at Ayr on the 9th of January 1686 . Ramsay served with the English auxiliaries in the Netherlands, and in 1710 visited Fenelon, who converted him to Roman Catholicism . He remained in France until 1724, when he was sent to Rome as tutor to the Stuart princes, Charles Edward and Henry, the future cardinal of York . He was driven by intrigue from this post, and returned to Paris . He was in England in 1730, and received an honorary degree from the university of Oxford . The claim was nominally his discipleship to Fenelon, but in reality beyond doubt his connexion with the Jacobite party . He died at St Germain-en-Laye (Seine-et-Oise) on the 6th of May 1743 . Ramsay's principal work was Les voyages de Cyrus (London, 1728; Paris, 1727), a book composed in avowed imitation of Telemaque . He also edited Telemaque itself (Paris, 2 vols., 1717) with an introduction, and wrote a Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Fenelon (The Hague, 1723), besides a partial biography (Paris, 1735) of Turenne, some poems (Edinburgh, 1728) in English, and other miscellaneous works .