Ramsay returned to Australia in 1880 to gain pastoral experience at Wellshot Station, before proceeding to takeover the management of Eton Vale.
His brother, Robert, joined him in 1883 and together the pair made a series of land acquisitions in North West Queensland.
[6] Remaining in England in 1895, he met and married Alice Katherine Angélique Waterfield at Canterbury Cathedral, with the couple going on to have six children.
[1] He returned to Australia and played for Toowoomba XVIII in November 1897 against a touring English side captained by Andrew Stoddart, with Ramsay excelling in the match by taking a five wicket haul.
[8] As a cricketer, he was described by the Australian Dictionary of Biography as "an indifferent right-hand batsman, he proved an economical right-arm, medium-pace bowler, but his action was sometimes questioned by critics".