| LC control no. | nr 97044281 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ramsay, Alexander, 1822-1909 |
| Variant(s) | Ramsay, Alexander, b. 1822 |
| Located | Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1822-05-22 |
| Death date | 1909-04-01 |
| Place of birth | Glasgow (Scotland) |
| Profession or occupation | Editors Journalists |
| Found in | The scientific roll, 1884: t.p. (Alexander Ramsay) RLIN, 12/12/97 (hdg.: Ramsay, Alexander, 1822- ) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, March 9, 2015: (Ramsay, Alexander (1822-1909), newspaper editor, born in Glasgow on 22 May 1822. He was early orphaned and in 1824 his family removed to Edinburgh, where he was educated at Gillespie Free School and where, in 1836, he entered the printing office of Oliver and Boyd. The period 1843-1844 he spent in London in the government printing office of T. and J. W. Harrison. Returning to Edinburgh in 1845 he took on literary work of different kinds until, in 1847, he was appointed editor of the Banffshire Journal, a post that he filled for sixty-two years. He greatly raised the position of that newspaper, in which he gave prominence to the subject of the sea fisheries, and made a special feature of agriculture, and the pure breeding of cattle. He wrote a life of Oliver Goldsmith (1858), and a History of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (1879). He was joint editor of volumes 2 (1872) and 3 (1875) of the Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book, and sole editor of volumes 4 to 33 (1876-1905)) Wikisource, May 18, 2016 (Ramsay, Alexander b. 1822; d. 1909, Scottish journalist; died at Earlhill, Banff, April 1, 1909. |
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