| LC control no. | n 50054450 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR3657 |
| Personal name heading | Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758 |
| Variant(s) | Ramsey, Allen, 1686-1758 Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758 Ramsey, Allan, 1686-1758 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
| Birth date | 1686-10-15 |
| Death date | 1758-01-07 |
| Place of birth | Leadhills (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Wigs Poetry Drama Book industries and trade Libraries |
| Profession or occupation | Wigmakers Poets Dramatists Booksellers and bookselling Publishers and publishing Librarians |
| Found in | New light on Allan Ramsay. Thirty Scots songs, 1770?: title page (Allen Ramsey) DNB (Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)) Encyclopedia Britannica (Ramsay, Allan; born October 15, 1686; died January 7, 1758) Academic American encyclopedia, 1986 (Ramsay, Allan; born October 15, 1686; died January 7, 1758) BL authority fiche, August 1990 (Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758) Thirty Scots songs, between 1773 and 1778: title page ( Allan Ramsey) English Wikipedia, viewed 16 November 2022 (Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686-7 January 1758) was a Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian, and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh; he was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire; in 1701, Allan was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh and received his indentures back by 1709; Ramsay's first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate; in the society of the members he assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff, and later of Gawin Douglas; by 1718 he had made some reputation as a writer of occasional verse and then (or a year earlier) he turned bookseller in the premises where he had hitherto plied his craft of wig-making; in 1725 he removed to another shop, in the neighbouring Luckenbooths, where he opened a circulating library and extended his business as a bookseller; Ramsay is considered to have created the first circulating library in Britain when he rented books from his shop in 1726; in 1755 he retired from his shop to the house on the slope of the Castle Rock, still known as Ramsay Lodge) |
| Associated language | sco eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 89630827 no 97072237 |
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