Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay

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Colonel Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay FLS, FZS (1852-1921) was an army officer and naturalist. He studied at Cheam and Harrow and joined the Army to be stationed in India, Afghanistan and Burma. During his various positions he took a great interest in ornithology. He was president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1913 to 1918. He edited The Ornithological works of Arthur 9th Marquis of Tweeddale (1881) and he also was writing a Guide to the birds of Europe and North Africa (1923). He was a nephew of Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale and inherited his collection of over 20,000 bird skins. This was later presented to the British Museum.

He actively corresponded with other ornithologists in the region such as Allan Octavian Hume.

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• Obituary. 1921. Ibis 538-540.
• Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.