Arthur Stanley Ramsey (9 September 1867 – 31 December 1954) was a British mathematician and author of mathematics and physics textbooks.
Adam Averell Ramsey of Dewsbury,[3] a Congregational minister,[4] and his wife Hephzibah, Ramsey was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge where he read Mathematics (B.A.
[5] He was Assistant Master at Fettes College from 1890 to 1897, moving into academia as Fellow of Magdalene in 1897.
As a tutor, he supervised the maths work of William Empson, who would go on to apply path-breaking tools of analytical logic to the criticism of literature.
Mary herself was academically accomplished, having earned a Class II Honours Certificate in Modern History from St Hugh's College, Oxford.