Charles Aloysius Ramsay

He spent his time on the continent of Europe, and his shorthand system, which owed much to Thomas Shelton's, became popular in France during the 1680s.

He was probably, like his father, Charles (Carl) Ramsay (died 1669), born at Elbing in the Duchy of Prussia.

In the 1650s there had been the shorthand of Jacques Cossard; in the 1660s that of Daniel Georg Morhof; and Thomas Shelton's system had become known in an exposition by Gaspard Schott.

[2] Ramsay also translated from German into Latin a work of Johann Kunckel, Johannis Kunkelii, Elect.

Cubicularii intimi et Chymici, Utiles Observationes sive Animadversiones de Salibus fixis et volatilibus, Auro et argento potabili, Spiritu mundi et similibus, London and Rotterdam, 1678; dedicated to the Royal Society of London.