Keith Ramsay Explained

Keith Ramsay
Office1:Mayor of Dunedin
Term1:1874-1875
Birth Date:4 March 1844
Birth Place:Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland
Death Place:Dunedin, New Zealand

Keith Ramsay (4 March 1844 – 3 May 1906) was mayor of Dunedin from 1874 to 1875.

Ramsay was born in the manse of Alyth in Perthshire in 1844. His father, William Ramsay, was a parish minister. He received his education at Blairgowrie.[1] After entering in business in Dundee, left for New Zealand, sailing to Port Chalmers on the Jura in 1862. Ramsay became a ship owner, with the coasting steamers Invercargill and Rimu to his name, and was involved in a variety of Dunedin businesses. He was elected to the council in 1874, and was the Chairman of both the Otago Harbour Board and the Chamber of Commerce, and a director of the National Insurance Company.[2] Ramsay died in Dunedin on 3 May 1906, leaving a widow, three sons and six daughters.[3] His fifth daughter, Nora, married the barrister Charles White.[4]

Notes and References

  1. News: Obituary . 14 June 2021 . . 12804 . 4 May 1906 . 6 . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195512/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19060504.2.59 . live .
  2. Griffiths. George. September 2005. Dunedin's 19th Century Mayors. Friends of the Hocken Collections Bulletin. 51. 29 May 2020. 21 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210521000425/https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/pdf/hoc_fr_bulletins/Bull_51_Mayors.pdf. live.
  3. News: Obituary . . LXII . 12495 . 4 May 1906 . 6 . 29 May 2020 . 14 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210614222818/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19060504.2.47 . live .
  4. News: Marriages . 14 June 2021 . . 2972 . 1 March 1911 . 51 . 14 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210614224835/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19110301.2.173 . live .