August Ramsay (15 March 1859 – 23 July 1943) was a Finnish mathematician, banker and insurance executive. Ramsay was promoted to doctor of philosophy from Imperial Alexander University in 1882. From 1891 Ramsay served as Finland's first insurance reviewer until 1895, when he became CEO of the Finnish Urban Mortgage Fund. From 1897 to 1899, Ramsay served as a member of the Finance Committee and the State Railways Committee. From May to August 1901, Ramsay was a member of the

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. From November 1902, Ramsay served as the first managing director of the Mutual Fire Aid Association of Finnish Industrialists until 1913. From 1916 to 1939, Ramsay was a member of the board of directors of the same company and from 1940 to 1943 the chairman of the company's board of directors. Ramsay represented his noble family in the

Diet of Finland The Diet of Finland (Finnish ''Suomen maapäivät'', later ''valtiopäivät''; Swedish ''Finlands Lantdagar''), was the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906 and the recipient of the powers of the Swedish Riksda ...

from 1885 to 1906. Ramsay served as

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for 121 days Kaarlo Castrén's Minority Government in 1919, representing the Swedish People's Party. From 1923 to 1924, Ramsay served as the governor of the

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and as the chairman of the executive board. Ramsay served as

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for the Uusimaa constituency from 1 April 1919 to 4 September 1922. He was married to the historian

Jully Ramsay Julia ”Jully” Ramsay ( Ekström; 1865—1919) was a Finnish historian and genealogist. Career Ramsay is notable not only as the first woman genealogist in Finland, but also as a pioneer of Finnish genealogy in general. She is best remember ...

. Their son was

Henrik Ramsay Carl Henrik Wolter Ramsay (31 March 1886 in Helsinki – 25 July 1951 in Visby) was a Finnish politician and an economist from the Swedish People's Party. Ramsay is mostly remembered for the fact that he was sentenced in the war-responsibility tri ...

. August's brothers were Wilhelm Ramsay ja Wolter Ramsay.

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