Given name: Allan
Family name: Ramsay
Birth date: 15 October 1686
Death date: 7 January 1758
Nationality: Scottish
Family relations
father: Robert Ramsay
mother: Alice Ramsay
wife: Christian Ramsay (from 1712)
son: Allan Ramsay
Languages
English
Scottish
Education: Crawford village school to 1701
Politics: Jacobite
Honour: Laureate, Jacobite 'Easy Club': 2 February 1715
Literary period: Augustan
Occupations
Wig-maker: 1701
Bookseller: 1716
Residences
Leadhills, parish of Crawford, Lanarkshire: 15 November 1686
Edinburgh: 1701
Cause of death: Scurvy
Buried at: Old Greyfriars churchyard
First RPO edition: 1996-2000