Robert Ramsay (cricketer)
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| Full name | Robert Christian Ramsay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 December 1861 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Died | 25 June 1957 (aged 95) Bekesbourne, Kent, England |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm leg break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Francis Ramsay (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1881–2 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1881–2 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 19 May 1881 Cambridge University v Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 21 August 1882 Somerset v Australians | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 27 May 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Christian Ramsay (20 December 1861 – 25 June 1957) was an English-born gentleman who spent much of his life as a pastoralist and businessman in Queensland, Australia. During the late 1880s, he was also an amateur cricketer who played for Harrow, Cambridge University and Somerset. In 1882, he also played for the Gentlemen of England under W.G. Grace.
Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Ramsay spent his early childhood in Australia, but moved back to England with his family in March 1874 to enable him and his older brother to receive an education. He attended Harrow and then Cambridge, and gained his sporting Blue at the latter, playing in the University match against Oxford in 1882. He made fifteen first-class appearances for Cambridge and Somerset in 1881 and 1882, but did not play any first-class cricket after that. In 1883, he left Cambridge without graduating and returned to Australia where, after working as a jackaroo at Winbar Station in New South Wales for nearly two years, he joined his brother Frank at Eton Vale, a large pastoral station on Queensland's Darling Downs owned by their father Robert Burnett Ramsay and Arthur Hodgson. At the time, Eton Vale was being managed by Arthur Hodgson's son Edward.
Bob Ramsay remained in Australia until his retirement in June 1920, when he returned with his wife and children to England and settled in Bekesbourne, Kent.
Robert Christian Ramsay was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 20 December 1861 as the sixth child and fourth son of Robert Burnett Ramsay and Susan, née Lindsay Carnegie. Three of his elder siblings died in very early childhood and his older brother Alfred died from appendicitis in 1874 when only 15 years old. Apart from spending five years as a director of mercantile firm Ramsay, Young & Co. in Sydney between 1839 and 1844, Robert Ramsay's father was a pastoralist and politician in Queensland who served as the eighth treasurer of Queensland. Bob Ramsay was at school in Warwick and then briefly at Ipswich Grammar School in Queensland, Australia until the family moved to England in March 1874. He then attended Elstree School and Harrow School. At Harrow, he was part of the football team in 1878 and 1879, captaining the side in the latter year. He also played for the school's cricket team, alongside his older brother Marmaduke Francis Ramsay, better known as Frank. In 1879, the brothers combined to take seventeen of Eton College's twenty wickets, of which Robert claimed six in the first innings and four in the second.
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