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William Ramsay (classical scholar)

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Due to failing health, Ramsay resigned his professorship in May 1863. He spent the following winter in Rome, collating the most important manuscripts of
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In 1834, he married Catherine Davidson, and together they had a daughter, Catherine Lilias Harriet.
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on 6 February 1806, the third son of Agnata Frances, daughter of Vincent Biscoe of
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Memoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men - William Ramsay
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He returned to the University of Glasgow where he was elected
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For the Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar, see
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Between 1833 and 1859, he published many works between.
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Hutton's "Course of Mathematics", remodelled by W. R.
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People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
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William Mitchell Ramsay
classical scholar
Edinburgh
Hookwood
baronet of Bamff
Royal High School, Edinburgh
Latin
Greek
University of Glasgow
Trinity College, Cambridge
Professor of Humanity
Plautus
Sanremo
Encyclopædia Metropolitana
William Smith
Cicero



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