Background
Rambaut was born in County Waterford, Ireland, the fifth son of Review Edmund Francis Rambaut, vicar of Christ Church, Blackrock, County Dublin and Madeline Marland.
Rambaut was born in County Waterford, Ireland, the fifth son of Review Edmund Francis Rambaut, vicar of Christ Church, Blackrock, County Dublin and Madeline Marland.
He was educated at Rathmines School, Dublin, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained first place in his final medical examination.
He was also a hurdler and a cricketer. He was the hero of the Lansdowne Road crowd in February 1887, when Ireland beat England at rugby for the first time. He converted two tries, both of which he was instrumental in obtaining, which constituted the only scores of the match.
In order to study the pathology of the nervous system he then studied at Wakefield Mental Hospital and at Vienna University.
On his return to Ireland he became assistant medical officer and pathologist at the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, Grangegorman, Dublin. In 1913 he was appointed Medical Superintendent of Street Andrew"s Hospital, Northampton, then the largest private mental hospital in England, where he remained until his death in 1937.
He was also President of the Royal Medico-psychological Association in 1934, which later became the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He was a brother of the astronomer Arthur Alcock Rambaut.