DAVID

See also:

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

RAMSAY (1749—1815)  , American physician and historian, the son of an Irish emigrant, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 2nd of April 1749 . He graduate( at Princeton in 1765, and M.B. at the University of Penn sylvania in 1773, and then settled as a physician at Charlestor: South Carolina, where he had a large practice . During tht War of Independence he served as a field-surgeon (178o-1781), and from 1776 to 1783 he was a member of the South Carolins legislature . Having acted as one of the " council of safety ' at Charleston, he was, on the capture of that city in 178c. seized by the British as a hostage, and for nearly a year wat kept.in confinement at St Augustine . From 1782 to 1786 ht served in the Continental Congress, and from 18o1 to 1815 ir the state Senate, of which he was long president . In 1785 he published in two volumes History of the Revolution of South Carolina, in 1789 in two volumes History of the American Revolution, in 1807 a Life of Washington, and in 1809 in two volumes a History of South Carolina . He was also the author of several minor works . He died at Charleston on the 8th of May 1815 from a wound inflicted by a lunatic . His History of the United States in 3 vols. was published posthumously in 1816—1817, and forms the first three volumes of his Universal History Americanized, published in 12 vols. in 1819 . .RAMSAY, ROBERT (1842—1882), Australian statesman, was a native of Hawick, Roxburghshire, but his parents emigrated to Victoria when he was a child of four, and he was educated at the Scottish college in Melbourne . He studied law at Melbourne University, and subsequently became a member of a well-known firm of solicitors in the city . He married in 1868 Isabella Catherine Urquhart, and in 1870 entered the assembly for East Bourke in the Conservative and free trade interest .

He was a member of the

government of James Goodall Francis in 1872—74 . He was subsequently postmaster-general (1874—75) in the administration of George Biscoe Kerferd; he held the same office in conjunction with the ministry of education (1875—77) under Sir James M`Culloch; and for a short term in 188o hH was chief secretary and minister of education in the first administration of James Service . He died on the 23rd of May 1882 .