Arthur Stanley Ramsey
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Arthur Stanley Ramsey (9 September 1867 – 31 December 1954) was a British mathematician and author of mathematics and physics textbooks.Mr. A. S. Ramsey Resurgence Of Magdalene College, Cambridge (Obituaries) He was Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and its President from 1915–52.{{acad|id=RMSY886AS|name=Ramsey, Arthur Stanley}}
Biography
The son of Rev. Adam Averell Ramsey of Dewsbury,Alumni Cantabrigienses: Abbas-Cutts, vol. II, University of Cambridge, 1953, pg 241 a Congregational minister,Religion in Victorian Britain Vol II: Controversies, Gerald Parsons and James Richard Moore, Manchester University Press, 1988, pg 262 and his wife Hephzibah, Ramsey was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge where he read Mathematics (B.A. (6th Wrangler) 1889; M.A. 1893).Who's Who in Science- International, 1914, ed. Henry Holder Stephenson, pg 481
He was Assistant Master at Fettes College from 1890 to 1897, moving into academia as Fellow of Magdalene in 1897. He was Bursar of the college, 1904–13 and University Lecturer in Mathematics, 1926-32. As a tutor, he supervised the maths work of William Empson, who would go on to apply path-breaking tools of analytical logic to the criticism of literature.
In 1902 Ramsey married (Mary) Agnes (1875-1927),The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton N. Cohen, Oxford University Press, 1979, pg 1023 daughter of Rev. Plumpton Stravenson Wilson,Brief Lives: Twentieth-century pen portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Colin Matthew, Oxford University Press, 1999, pg 437 vicar of Horbling, Lincs. and sister to the cricketer and footballer Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson. Mary herself was academically accomplished, having earned a Class II Honours Certificate in Modern History from St Hugh's College, Oxford.The Letters of Lewis Carroll, ed. Morton N. Cohen, Oxford University Press, 1979, pg 1023 In April 1913, Mary stood for election to the Cambridge Board of Guardians in Bridge Ward, and was elected with 321 votes.{{cite news|title=Cambridge Independent Press|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000418/19130411/045/0006|accessdate=1 July 2017|publisher=Cambridge Independent Press|date=13 April 1913}}
Ramsey and his wife had two daughters, Bridget and Margaret, and two sons, philosopher and mathematician Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930) and Michael Ramsey (1904–1988) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury for thirteen years.{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ramsey.html|title=Frank Plumpton Ramsey|publisher=MacTutor History of Mathematics archive|accessdate=16 March 2013}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DKbydJZOmc4C&pg=PA1 |title=Cambridge and Vienna: Frank P. Ramsey and the Vienna Circle |publisher=Springer |year=2006 |isbn=9781402041006 |editor=Maria C. Galavotti |editor-link=Maria Carla Galavotti |pages=1–19 |chapter=Frank Ramsey, a Biographical Sketch (chapter authored by Gabrielle Taylor) |accessdate=16 March 2013}} Mary Agnes was killed in 1927 in a road traffic accident.Road Accidents. Wife Of President Of Magdalene Killed. The Times Tuesday, 16 August 1927; pg. 7; Issue 44661; col E
He is buried in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge; his son Frank and wife Mary are buried in the same plot.A Guide to Churchill College, Cambridge: text by Dr Mark Goldie, pages 62 and 63 (2009) His home, Howfield, Buckingham Road, is now part of Cambridge Blackfriars.
Publications
- 1913: (with W. H. Besant) [https://books.google.com/books?id=2p03AAAAMAJ A Treatise on Hydromechanics] from Google Books.
- 1956: An Introduction to the Theory of Newtonian Attraction, Cambridge University Press
References
External links
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