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David Ramsay (other)
David Ramsay may refer to: Government and politics Canada * David Ramsay (Ontario politician) (1948–2020), Canadian politician in Legislative Assembly of Ontario * Dave Ramsay (born 1970), Canadian politician in the Northwest Territories * David William Ramsay (1943–2008), Canadian lawyer and judge Other areas * David Ramsay (historian) (1749–1815), American historian and politician from South Carolina * David Ramsay (communist) (1883–1948), British socialist activist *Sir David Ramsay, 4th Baronet (after 1673–1710), among Scottish representatives to 1st Parliament of Great Britain MP for Scotland & Kincardineshire Other * David Ramsay (watchmaker) (c.1590-1653), British clockmaker and watchmaker * David Ramsay (trader) David Ramsay (c. 1740 – c. 1810) was a controversial figure born in Leven, Scotland, who served as a cabin boy in the British Royal Navy, participated in the siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and later acted as a courier, translator and fur and alcoho ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (Ontario Politician)
David James Ramsay (April 23, 1948 – July 29, 2020) was a Canadian politician in Ontario. He was elected as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1985 who crossed the floor a year later to join the Liberal party. He represented the northern Ontario riding of Timiskaming from 1985 to 1999 and the redistributed riding of Timiskaming—Cochrane from 1999 to 2011. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of David Peterson and Dalton McGuinty. Background Born in Australia, Ramsay moved to Canada with his parents at age one after having been adopted in Sydney, and was raised in Oakville, Ontario. He attended Concordia University in Montreal, and after graduation worked as a farmer in New Liskeard and a clerk-treasurer in Casey Township, in northern Ontario. He later served as president of the Timiskaming Federation of Agriculture in 1984-85, was a founding member of the Timiskaming Grain Growers Board, and served as chair of the Timiskaming Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Ramsay
Dave Ramsay (born March 18, 1970 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Yellowknife businessman and politician. Political career Ramsay first ran for a seat in the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly in the 1999 Northwest Territories general election in the electoral district of Range Lake. He was defeated by candidate Sandy Lee finishing a close second. He would run again in the 2003 Northwest Territories general election this time in the electoral district of Kam Lake Kam Lake is a provinces and territories of Canada, territorial Constituency, electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is one of seven districts that represent Yellowknife. A larger-than-usual pro .... He defeated two other candidates with nearly 50% of the vote to win his first term in office. Ramsay was reelected to a second term in the 2007 general election. He won a third term in the 2011 election and was chosen for cabinet on the formation of the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David William Ramsay
David William Ramsay (1943–2008) was a Canadian lawyer and judge notorious for being sent to prison for sexual assault on minors, some of whom appeared before him in court. Ramsey was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1943 and moved to Port Alberni, British Columbia, with his family after the war. He received a degree in Education from the University of Victoria in 1964 and taught elementary school for two years. He then returned to the University of Victoria from which he received a law degree in 1971. He articled under the late Harold Bogle, QC, in Prince George, British Columbia, following which he worked for a year at the firm of Phelps & Voyer in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. In 1973, he was hired by the British Columbia Legal Aid Society and returned to Prince George to open its first legal aid office. In 1975, he returned to private practice. He was appointed to the Provincial Court in 1991. He was married and had four children. Crime and prosecution During his tenure as ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (historian)
David Ramsay (April 2, 1749May 8, 1815) was an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one of the first major historians of the American Revolutionary War. During the Revolution he served in the South Carolina legislature until he was captured by the British. After his release he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782–1783 and again in 1785–1786. Afterwards he served in the state House and Senate until retiring from public service. In 1803, Ramsay was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He was murdered in 1815 by a mentally ill man whom Ramsay had examined as a physician. He is the first American politician to be assassinated. Early life and family David Ramsay was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the son of a Scottish emigrant. His brother was Nathaniel Ramsey, a Congressman and a brother-in-law of painter Charles Willson Peale. He attended college at Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (communist)
David Ramsay (1883–1948) was a British socialist activist. Born in Edinburgh, Ramsay became a patternmaker and joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.Graham Stevenson,Ramsay David, ''Compendium of Communist Biography'' He joined the Social Democratic Federation and then its successor, the British Socialist Party (BSP). However, by the start of World War I, he had joined the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) and had relocated to Leicester. He was a fervent opponent of the war, and was fined £100 in 1916 for trying to prevent people from joining the Army. The SLP was heavily involved in the Clyde Workers' Committee and, although he did not succeed in starting such a movement in Leicester, Ramsay supported similar initiatives across the country. He became treasurer of the Shop Stewards' and Workers' Committees organisation, within which he led efforts to organise the unemployed and was involved in organising ex-servicemen. In 1919, police claimed that he had given a sedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir David Ramsay, 4th Baronet
Sir David Ramsay, 4th Baronet (after 1673 – by 1 September 1710), of Balmain, Kincardine, was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1705 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1707 to 1710. Ramsay was son of Sir Charles Ramsay, 3rd Baronet, of Balmain, Kincardineshire. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and attended Marischal College, Aberdeen from 1693 to 1697. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1695 while at the university. Ramsay contested Kincardine in 1702 unsuccessfully, but was returned as Shire Commissioner in 1705. He was a supporter of the Country party, and was initially an opponent of the Union. He was often absent from Parliament and was inconsistent when he did vote. In 1707 he was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain. At the 1708 British general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Kincardineshire Kincardineshire, also known as the Mearns (from the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (watchmaker)
David Ramsay (died c. 1653), was a Scottish clockmaker who worked for James VI and I and Charles I of England. Born in Scotland, he was from the family of Ramsay of Dalhousie. His son William ( fl. 1660) wrote that when King James succeeded to the crown of England in 1603, "he sent into France for my father, who was then there, and made him page of the bedchamber and groom of the privy chamber, and keeper of all his majesties' clocks and watches. This I mention that by some he hath bin termed no better than a watch maker. ... It's confest his ingenuity led him to understand any piece of work in that nature ... and therefore the king conferred that place upon him". On 25 November 1613 he was appointed clockmaker-extraordinary to the king with a pension of £50 a year, and in March 1616 a warrant was issued for the payment to him of £234 and 10 shillings for the purchase and repair of clocks and watches for the king. On 26 November 1618 he was appointed chief clockmaker, and on 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (trader)
David Ramsay (c. 1740 – c. 1810) was a controversial figure born in Leven, Scotland, who served as a cabin boy in the British Royal Navy, participated in the siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and later acted as a courier, translator and fur and alcohol trader, in part of the lower Great Lakes region consisting of present-day southern Ontario, Canada, and western New York state. Several conflicting images emerge of Ramsay regarding his conduct amongst the native people of the region while engaged as a trader. One cluster of accounts preserved in the 18th and 19th century oral tradition of Loyalist settlers in the area around Long Point, Ontario, draws mostly on stories told by the wife of local settler Frederick Mabee in the early 19th century and portray Ramsay as a quintessential "pioneer hero" figure who strikes out at local natives only in preservation of his life and property, against the onslaught of the local Ojibwa people who sought to harm him without cause. Another perspecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay (curler)
David Ramsay (born 14 April 1957 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish curler and curling coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co .... At the national level, he is a two-time Scottish men's champion curler (1981, 1982) and a 1978 Scottish junior champion curler. At the international level, he is a bronze medallist. Awards * WJCC All-Star Team, Men: Teams Record as a coach of national teams References External links * * 1957 births Living people Curlers from Edinburgh Scottish male curlers Scottish curling champions Scottish curling coaches {{Scotland-curling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Prophet Ramsay
David Prophet Ramsay (6 July 1888 – 11 January 1944) was an early-mid 20th century Scottish painter specialising in portrait, figure and, occasionally, landscape painting. Early life David Prophet Ramsay was born in Perth, Scotland in 1888, the sixth and youngest child of Alexander Ramsay, a china merchant, and Jean Ann Prophet. He was educated at Perth Academy before joining Coates Bros of Perth, training as a textile designer between 1904 and 1909.Peter J.M. McEwan (1994). ''The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture.'' Antique Collectors' Club. . In 1909 he entered Glasgow School of Art, studying under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Paul Artôt. He gained his diploma in 1913. That same year he won the Haldane Travel Scholarship, the top prize for a senior student. He used the proceeds to travel throughout Europe, visiting Belgium, Holland, France, Italy and Spain.Perth Museum and Art Gallery (1988). ''D.P. Ramsay, 1888–1944: centenary exhibition.'' Perth Museum and Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsey (other)
David Ramsey (born 1971) is an American actor. David Ramsey may also refer to: *Dave Ramsey (born 1960), American radio show host and businessman *David Ramsey (musician) (1939–2008), organist for the Memphis Redbirds See also *David Ramsay (other) David Ramsay may refer to: Government and politics Canada * David Ramsay (Ontario politician) (1948–2020), Canadian politician in Legislative Assembly of Ontario * Dave Ramsay (born 1970), Canadian politician in the Northwest Territories * David ... * David Rumsey (other) {{hndis, Ramsey, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
