Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Edward Bannerman Ramsay (1793 - 1872), a clergyman of the ScottishEpiscopal Church, and Dean of Edinburgh in that communion from 1841, hasa place in literature by his "Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character", which had gone through 22 editions at his death. It is a bookfull of the engaging personality of the author, and preserves manyinteresting and entertaining traits and anecdotes which must otherwise,in all probability, have perished. The Dean was deservedly one of themost popular men in Scotland.

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