Background
The son of Review Adam Averell Ramsey, a Congregational minister, and his wife Hephzibah, Ramsey was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Master of Arts, 1893).
The son of Review Adam Averell Ramsey, a Congregational minister, and his wife Hephzibah, Ramsey was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Master of Arts, 1893).
Magdalen College.
He was Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and its President from 1915–1937. He was a Master at Fettes College from 1890 to 1897, moving into academia in 1897. In 1902 Ramsey married (Mary) Agnes (1875-1927), daughter of Review
Plumpton Stravenson Wilson, Vicar of Horbling, Lincolnshire.
Mary Agnes was killed in 1927 in a road traffic accident.