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Edward Bannerman Ramsay
1793–1872
A warm and observant Scottish churchman, he became best known for turning the humor, speech, and daily character of Scotland into lively anecdotal prose. His most famous book, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, stayed popular for decades and helped preserve a vivid picture of 19th-century Scottish life.
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Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character And a Memoir of Dean Ramsay by Cosmo Innes
by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
About the author
Born in Aberdeen in 1793, Edward Bannerman Ramsay was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopal Church who was widely known as Dean Ramsay. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, spent several years serving as a curate in England, and then returned to Edinburgh, where he became closely associated with St John's Episcopal Church.
Ramsay served for many years in Edinburgh and became Dean of the diocese in the 1840s. Alongside his church work, he built a literary reputation through his affectionately told sketches and anecdotes of Scottish manners, speech, and everyday life.
He is remembered above all for Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, a book valued not just for its humor but for the way it captures voices and customs that might otherwise have faded from memory. Ramsay died in 1872, but his work still offers a genial, human window into Scotland in the 19th century.