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ROBERT GEORGE WARDLAW RAMSAY. 



Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay was the only son of 

 Robert Balfour Wardlaw Ramsay of Whitehill, Midlothian, 

 and Tillicoultry in Clackmannanshire, and Louisa, third 

 daughter of George, eighth Marquess of Tweeddale. He 

 was educated at Cheam and Harrow, and elected to follow 

 a military career. He received his Commission in the 

 Hampshire Regiment in January 1871, and soon after left 

 for India; went through the Afghan Campaign, and saw 

 service in Burmah and the Andaman Islands. Later he 

 transferred to the Highland Light Infantry, afterwards 

 commanding the 7th Volunteer Battalion of the Royal 

 Scots, and eventually acting as Chairman of the Territorial 

 Force Association. During the Great War he commanded 

 a Brigade of the Territorial Force Reserve on Coast 

 Defences. 



He retired from the Army on the death of his father in 

 1882, and from that year until his death he took an active 

 part in County affairs. He was Deputy-Chairman for the 

 County of Midlothian ; Chairman of the Territorial Forces 

 for that County; Chairman of the Edinburgh and East of 

 Scotland College of Agriculture, and was also closely asso- 

 ciated with charitable work. Though by nature reserved 

 in manner, he was a singularly attractive personality to 

 those who knew him intimately — a man who lived up 

 to high ideals, and the personification of all that was 



