John Ramsay L'Amy

John Ramsay L’Amy of Dunkenny WS FRSE DL (1813-1892) was a Scottish lawyer, phrenologist and early photographer.

He was born at 27 Northumberland Street in Edinburgh on 9 April 1813 the son of James L'Amy FRSE and his wife Mary Carson.

[citation needed] In 1845 he married Mary Riche Macleod Innes (1819-1875) at South Leith Parish Church and they appear to have emigrated to Coogee, New South Wales in Australia where their first child, Christine Ramsay L’Amy was born in 1846.

[citation needed] He was an early member of the Edinburgh Photographic Society (established 1861) and exhibited from 1864.

[1] In 1875, due to both his photographic and phrenological interests, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.