Sir Andrew Ramsay, 1st Baronet (died December 1679) was a Scottish politician.
Life
He was the eldest son of
Sir Andrew Ramsay of
Abbotshall Kirkcaldy and Dysart is a civil parish on the south coast of Fife, Scotland, lying on the Firth of Forth, containing the towns of Kirkcaldy and Dysart and their hinterland. The civil parish was formed in December 1901 by an amalgamation of the par ...
, and was created a baronet on 23 June 1669. He represented North Berwick at the Convention of Burghs in 1669, and sat for
the burgh in the Parliament of 1669 to 1674. In 1671 he had a charter of the lands of
Wauchton, and was known as Ramsay of Wauchton thereafter. His first wife, Margaret Hepburn, died in 1672, and in 1675 he was married to Anne, daughter of
Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton. They had one son, Andrew, who succeeded to
the baronetcy on his father's death abroad in 1679, and to the lands of Abbotshall on his grandfather's death in 1688.
[Margaret D. Young, ''The Parliaments of Scotland: Burgh and Shire Commissioners'' (1993) vol. 2, p. 581.]
References
1679 deaths
People from Fife
Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Burgh Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland
Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1669–1674
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