George Ramsay (historian)

George Ramsay
FBA
Born
George Daniel Ramsay

(1909-05-25)25 May 1909
Died11 June 1992(1992-06-11) (aged 83)
NationalityIrish
OccupationHistorian

George Daniel Ramsay, FBA (25 May 1909 – 11 June 1992) was an Irish historian. He was a tutor (from 1937) and fellow (from 1938) of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, until he retired in 1974.[1][2][3] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1990.[1]

Publications

  • The Wiltshire Woollen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1943)
  • (Editor) Two Wiltshire Tax Lists, 1545 and 1576, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Records Series, vol. 10 (Devizes: Wiltshire Record Society, 1954)
  • English Overseas Trade during the Centuries of Emergence: Studies in Some Modern Origins of the English-speaking World (London: Macmillan, 1957)
  • (Editor) John Isham, Mercer and Merchant Adventurer: Two Account Books of a London Merchant in the Reign of Elizabeth I, Publications of Northamptonshire Record Society, vol. 21 (Gateshead: Northumberland Press, 1962)
  • The City of London in International Politics at the Accession of Elizabeth Tudor (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1975)
  • The Queen's Merchants and the Revolt of the Netherlands (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986)

References

  1. ^ a b "George Daniel Ramsay", Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. 87 (1995), pp. 401–414.
  2. ^ St Edmund Hall Magazine: 1973–1974 (Oxford: St Edmund Hall, 1974), p. 4.
  3. ^ St Edmund Hall Magazine: 1991–1992 (Oxford: St Edmund Hall, 1992), p. 51.


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