Allen Beville Ramsay
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Allen Beville Ramsay (3 August 1872 – 20 September 1955) was an English academic and Latin poet. He was
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
.
He was the son of Beville and Sarah Maria Ramsay of Croughton House, Brackley, Northamptonshire.
Ramsay was educated at
M.A. in 1901.[1]
From 1895 to 1925 he taught at Eton, returning to Cambridge as Master of
Lord Braybrooke chose to appoint Ramsay. He served as Vice-Chancellor, 1929–31 and President of Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1933 and 1947. Ramsay Hall, the largest room in Bright's Building in Magdalene, is named after him; it was refurbished in 1949 to become the college canteen.[2]
Ramsay has been described as "probably the most significant British Latin poet of the twentieth century". He published collections of Latin and English verse with botanically inspired titles: Inter Lilia (1920), Ros Rosarum (1925), Frondes Salicis (1935), Flos Malvae (1946), and Ros Maris (1954).[3]
References
- ^ "Ramsay, Allen Beville (RMSY891AB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Hyam, R. (1982). Magdalene Described. Sawston, Cambridgeshire, U.K.: Crampton & Sons Ltd.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 17 January 2017 (Subscription required)
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