| LC control no. | n 50054450 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR3657 |
| Personal name heading | Ramsay, Allan, 1684-1758 |
| Variant(s) | Ramsey, Allen, 1684-1758 Ramsay, Allan, 1685-1758 Ramsey, Allan, 1684-1758 Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
| Birth date | 1684-10-15 |
| 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) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Dec. 18, 2024 (Ramsay, Allan (1684 - 1758), poet, was born on 15 October 1684 at Leadhills, in Crawfordmuir parish, Lanarkshire, the son of John Ramsay (c.1660 - 1685), factor to the Hope estate and superintendent of its lead mines, and the probably Scots-born Alice (d. 1700), daughter of Allan Bower, gentleman and mineralogist of Derbyshire. Ramsay has long been alleged to be a descendant of the Douglas family and a relative of the Ramsays of Dalhousie; there is little evidence for this, and even his status as the great-great-grandson of Ramsay, laird of Cockpen, is doubtful and may be a result of the search by one of his sons, the younger Allan Ramsay, for illustrious forebears.) |
| Associated language | sco eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 89630827 no 97072237 |
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