Edward Bannerman Burnett Ramsay was born in Aberdeen on 31 January 1793. He was educated at the village school in Halsey, northern England, and then at the Cathedral grammar school in Durham, and then he studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1816. In the same year, Ramsay was ordained as Curate of Rodden, near Frome, in Somerset, and then in 1817 he was Curate at Buckland Denham. 1824 saw his return to Scotland, to Edinburgh, as Curate at St. George's, York Place. He then served at St. Paul's, Carrubber's Close, and then from 1827 as assistant to Bishop Sandford at St. John's Church. In 1841 he was appointed as Dean of Edinburgh. Rev. Edward Bannerman Burnett Ramsay died in Edinburgh on 27 December 1872.
From the guide to the Letters of Rev. Edward Bannerman Burnett Ramsay (1793-1872), 1860-1869, (Edinburgh University Library)
