Keith Ramsay (4 March 1844 – 3 May 1906) was

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from 1874 to 1875. Ramsay was born in the

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Alyth Alyth () ( gd, Ailt) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, northeast of Blairgowrie and about northwest of Dundee. In 2016 the town had an estimated population of 2,400. First mentioned by name in a 12th-century royal charter of Willia ...

Perthshire Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...

in 1844. His father, William Ramsay, was a parish minister. He received his education at Blairgowrie. After entering in business in

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, left for New Zealand, sailing to

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on the ''Jura'' in 1862. Ramsay became a ship owner, with the coasting steamers ''Invercargill'' and ''Rimu'' to his name, and was involved in a variety of

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businesses. He was elected to the council in 1874, and was the Chairman of both the Otago Harbour Board and the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the National Insurance Company. Ramsay died in Dunedin on 3 May 1906, leaving a widow, three sons and six daughters. His fifth daughter, Nora, married the barrister Charles White.

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