Robert Ramsay (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Ramsay (cricketer)

Amateur cricketer

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1861

Place of Birth: Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1957

Profession: cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Robert Christian Ramsay (20 December 1861 – 25 June 1957) was an English-born gentleman who spent much of his life as a pastoralist and businessman in Queensland, Australia.
During the late 1880s, he was also an amateur cricketer who played for Harrow, Cambridge University and Somerset.
In 1882, he also played for the Gentlemen of England under W.G.
Grace. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Ramsay spent his early childhood in Australia, but moved back to England with his family in March 1874 to enable him and his older brother to receive an education.
He attended Harrow and then Cambridge, and gained his sporting Blue at the latter, playing in the University match against Oxford in 1882.
He made fifteen first-class appearances for Cambridge and Somerset in 1881 and 1882, but did not play any first-class cricket after that.
In 1883, he left Cambridge without graduating and returned to Australia where, after working as a jackaroo at Winbar Station in New South Wales for nearly two years, he joined his brother Frank at Eton Vale, a large pastoral station on Queensland's Darling Downs owned by their father Robert Burnett Ramsay and Arthur Hodgson.
At the time, Eton Vale was being managed by Arthur Hodgson's son Edward. Bob Ramsay remained in Australia until his retirement in June 1920, when he returned with his wife and children to England and settled in Bekesbourne, Kent.