Henry Ramsay (Indian Army officer)
- Henry Ramsay (Indian Army officer)
General Sir Henry Ramsay, KCSI, CB. (1816 - 1893) was a general in the Indian Army, Commissioner of the Kumaon and Garwhal districts. He is regarded as one of the great soldier-administrators of British India [The Indian Civil Service, 1601-1930. LSS O’Malley.] .
General Hon. Sir Henry Ramsay was born on 25 August 1816. He was the son of Lt.-Gen. Hon. John Ramsay and Mary Delise. He married Laura Lushington (daughter of the previous Commissioner of the Kumaon) in 1850 and together they had five children. He died on 16 December 1893 at the age of 77 [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p24013.htm thePeerage.com - Person Page 24013 ] ] .
In 1840, Ramsay was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Kumaon, when a colonel in the Bengal Army. Ramsay was amongst the most able of the British officials posted to the Kumaon district, and came to enjoy the respect and support of the people. His modest and genial approach ensured the region remained loyal to the British. In 1856 Ramsay became Commissioner and worked another 28 years in the Garhwal and Kumaon.
The Commissioner was based in Almora, but moved the administration 32km to the cooler Binsar during the summer. In 1875, Ramsay bought land near Binsar known as ‘Khali’, meaning empty, where he built a bungalow that now is now a resort. After retiring in 1884, Ramsay had hoped to live in Khali, but had to return to England [ [http://www.villageways.com/index.php?pageid=1616 Henry Ramsay ] ] . In the 1930’s Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister lived in the house.
For his services in the Kumaon Ramsay was invested as Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (K.C.S.I.) and later as a Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.).
According to P Whalley, "Henry Ramsay not only consolidated the earlier gains (of previous Kumaon Commissioners' Traill, Gardner, Batten & Lushington) but propelled Kumaon-Garwhal into the mainstream of modern India" [British Kumaon. P Whalley, 1870. (Re-printed 1991 by Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, with forward by RS Tolia)] .
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