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William Ramsay (other)
William Ramsay (1852–1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases. William Ramsay may also refer to: * William Ramsay (astrologer) (fl. 1660), English physician and astrologer *William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure (1771–1852), Scottish peer (until 1782 named the Hon. William Ramsay) * Bill Ramsay (born 1929), American jazz saxophonist and band leader based in Seattle *Bill Ramsay (politician) (born 1962), politician in Newfoundland, Canada *Bill Ramsay (athlete) (1928–1988), Australian athlete *William Ramsay (classical scholar) (1806–1865), professor of humanity in the University of Glasgow 1831–63 *William Ramsay (MP) (1809–1850), Scottish MP for Midlothian and Stirlingshire * William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939), Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar *William Ramsay (manufacturer) (1868–1914), Australian manufacturer who invented Kiwi shoe polish *William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie (died 1672), Scottish nobleman, army officer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay (; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for their discovery of argon. After the two men identified argon, Ramsay investigated other atmospheric gases. His work in isolating argon, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon led to the development of a new section of the periodic table. Early years Ramsay was born at 2 Clifton StreetGlasgow Post Office Directory 1852 in Glasgow on 2 October 1852, the son of civil engineer and surveyor, William C. Ramsay, and his wife, Catherine Robertson. The family lived at 2 Clifton Street in the city centre, a three-storey and basement Georgian townhouse. The family moved to 1 Oakvale Place in the Hillhead district in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ramsay (astrologer)
William Ramsay or William Ramesey (13 March 1626 or 1627 – died c. 1676) was a Scottish-English physician and astrologer. Life Ramsay was born at Westminster on 13 March 1626 or 1627. His father David Ramsay was the clock-maker to James I and Charles I, and was of Scottish descent. His mother was of English birth. William Ramsay spelt his name Ramesey, because he thought his ancestors came from Egypt. After passing through several schools in and about London, Ramsay was to have gone to Oxford, but was prevented by the civil war. Accordingly he went to St. Andrews, where his studies were broken by the war; he then went to Edinburgh, was driven out by the plague, and returned to London in April 1645. By the end of 1652 he had graduated M.D. at Montpellier, and was living with his father in Holborn. On 31 July he was admitted an extra licentiate of the London College of Physicians. Ramsay was physician-in-ordinary to Charles II, and was living at Plymouth, when he was admit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Maule, 1st Baron Panmure
William Ramsay Maule, 1st Baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar (27 October 1771 – 13 April 1852) was a Scottish landowner and politician. Life He was born William Ramsay, the younger son of George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie and Elizabeth Glen. His father was the son of Jean Maule, granddaughter of George Maule, 2nd Earl of Panmure. He attended the High School in Edinburgh from 1780 to 1784. On the death of George Maule in 1782 he adopted the surname Maule. In 1782 he succeeded to the Maule estates on the death of his great-uncle William Maule, 1st Earl Panmure, and assumed by Royal licence the same year the additional surname and arms of Maule. He represented Forfarshire in Parliament in 1796 and again between 1805 and 1831, when Maule was raised to the peerage at the coronation of William IV of the United Kingdom, as Baron Panmure, of Brechin and Navar in the County of Forfar, echoing his great-uncle's title. Panmure was a patron of the artists commissioning several paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ramsay
William George "Rams" Ramsay (born January 12, 1929) is an American jazz saxophonist and band leader based in Seattle. In 1997, he was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame, the top of eight Golden Ear Award categories presented annually since 1990 by the Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle. Ramsay performs on all the primary saxophones – soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone – as well as clarinet (his boyhood instrument), and bass clarinet. Performance affiliations Current * Ramsay has been a member of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra since its founding in 1995. * He was the co-leader, with Milton Edwin Kleeb (1919–2015), of a ten-piece jazz band based in Seattle – the Ramsay-Kleeb Big Band. The band plays the music of Miles Davis, Gil Evans, and Gerry Mulligan Past * Alto sax in the Buddy Morrow Band in the early 60s * Bari sax in the Maynard Ferguson Band * Lead alto sax in the Ray McKinley Band * Tenor sax in the Benny Goodman Octet * Bari sax in the Count Basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ramsay (politician)
William F. Ramsay (born May 26, 1962) is a former politician in Newfoundland. He represented La Poile and then Burgeo-La Poile in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1989 to 1999. The son of William Ramsay and Eileen Norma Beauchamp, he was born in Port aux Basques and was educated at Memorial University and Carleton University. In 1989, he married Leona Jane Jacqueline. He was sales manager for Beauchamp Hardware from 1982 to 1984. Ramsay was owner of Audio Express Ltd. in Corner Brook. He worked as a life insurance underwriter for Mutual of Omaha Mutual of Omaha is a Fortune 500 mutual insurance and financial services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1909 as Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, Mutual of Omaha is a financial organization offering a variety of insuranc ... from 1987 to 1989 and for North American Life Assurance from 1989 to 1990. He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1989 and was reelected in 1993 and 1996. Ramsay did not run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ramsay (athlete)
John William Ramsay (1 June 1928 – 30 June 1988) was an Australian athlete who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 400m and 800m The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the .... References 1928 births 1988 deaths Australian male sprinters Australian male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ramsay (classical Scholar)
William Ramsay (6 February 1806, Edinburgh – 12 February 1865, Sanremo) was a classical scholar. He was born 6 February 1806, and was the third son of Sir William Ramsay, the seventh baronet of Bamff. "Ramsay, William (1806-1865)" entry in ''Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900'', Volume 47. He received his first education in the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He studied Latin, Greek, and mathematics at Glasgow University from 1823 to 1825. He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1831. He returned to Glasgow University, where he was elected Professor of Humanity, Glasgow. He married Catherine Davidson, by whom he had a daughter, Catherine Lilias Harriet. He published many works between 1833 and 1859. In May 1863 Ramsay resigned his professorship through failing health, and spent the following winter in Rome, collating the most important manuscripts of Plautus. He died at Sanremo on 12 February 1865. His principal publications are: *''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ramsay (MP)
William Ramsay Ramsay of Barnton and Sauchie (29 May 1809 – 15 March 1850) was a British Conservative Party and Tory politician. Life He was born in Barnton House west of Edinburgh, on 29 May 1809, the eldest son of George Ramsay and his wife Jean Hamilton, daughter of John Hamilton Baron Belhaven. Barnton House (previously known as Cramond Regis) was commissioned by his father in 1784 to replace an earlier house, and was designed by Robert Adam. It was extended by architect David Hamilton in 1810. He was privately tutored then studied at Christ Church, Oxford graduating in 1828, and later that year married Mary Sandilands, daughter of James Sandilands, 10th Lord Torpichen—with whom he had 1 son, Charles William Ramsay (1844–1865). He inherited the estates of his father when "still an infant", an event which saw him conferred the distinction of "the richest commoner in Scotland". Ramsay was elected Tory MP for Stirlingshire Stirlingshire or the County of Stirl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mitchell Ramsay
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, FBA (15 March 185120 April 1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament. Ramsay was educated in the Tübingen school of thought (founded by F. C. Baur) which doubted the reliability of the New Testament, but his extensive archaeological and historical studies convinced him of its historical accuracy. From the post of Professor of Classical Art and Architecture at Oxford, he was appointed Regius Professor of Humanity (the Latin Professorship) at Aberdeen.W.M. Ramsay: British archaeologist and New Testament scholar Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Knighted in 1906 to mark his distinguished service to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ramsay (manufacturer)
William Ramsay (6 June 1868 – 4 September 1914) was a Scottish-born Australian shoe polish manufacturer. In 1906, Ramsay developed "Kiwi" brand shoe polish, today one of the most famous shoe polish brands in the world. Biography Ramsay was born on 6 June 1868 in Glasgow, Scotland to Margaret Thomson and her husband businessman John Ramsay. The family migrated to Melbourne in June 1878. The family prospered in Victoria; Ramsay's father, John, was a die-sinker and engraver in Scotland, however he became a successful real estate broker in his adopted homeland. After he left school, Ramsay set up a successful real estate firm with his father. After a trip to New Zealand, where he met and married Annie Elizabeth Meek in Oamaru on 2 January 1901, Ramsay established a factory in Carlton in partnership with Hamilton McKellar. From there, Ramsay & McKellar produced disinfectants, polishes, creams, and other products. In 1904 the factory moved to Elizabeth Street, Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ramsay, 1st Earl Of Dalhousie
William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie (died 1672) was a Scottish nobleman, army officer and politician. Early life He was the eldest son of George Ramsay, 1st Lord Ramsay of Dalhousie, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of George Douglas of Helenhill, brother to William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton, and Robert, Earl of Buchan. He was chosen to represent the burgh of Montrose in the Scottish parliament in 1617 and 1621. On 21 July 1618 he obtained from the king a charter of the barony of Dalhousie and of the lands of Kerington, Midlothian (Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1609–20, No. 704). He succeeded his father in 1629, and on the occasion of the coronation of Charles I in Scotland was admitted to the dignity of Earl of Dalhousie and Lord Ramsay of Kerington by patent dated 29 June 1633 to him and his heirs male. Wars of the Three Kingdoms Dalhousie was among those of the commissioners appointed for the subscription of the king's covenant who were Covenanters; and he subscribed the libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Norman Ramsay
Major William Norman Ramsay (1782–1815) was a Scottish officer in the British Royal Horse Artillery who fought in the Napoleonic Wars, and was noted for his valour. He was killed in action at Waterloo. He was sometimes called Norman Ramsay. Life Origins William Norman Ramsay, born in 1782, was the eldest son of Captain David Ramsay, of the Royal Navy (died 1818), and belonged to the family of the Ramsays of Balmain in Kincardineshire. He entered the Royal Military Academy as a cadet on 17 January 1797, was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 27 October 1798, became first lieutenant on 1 August 1800, and second captain on 24 April 1806. He served in the Egyptian campaign, 1800–1.Lloyd 1896, p. 263. The Peninsular War In 1809 Ramsay was posted to I Troop (Bull's) of the Royal Horse Artillery, and went with it to Portugal. It was engaged at Busaco in 1810, and was specially thanked by Sir Stapleton Cotton, for its zeal and activity in cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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