Robert Ramsay (Victorian politician)

Robert Ramsay (16 February 1842 – 23 May 1882),[1] was an Australian statesman and Postmaster-General of Victoria on two occasions in the 1870s.

Ramsay was a native of Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, but his parents emigrated to Victoria when he was a child of four, and he was educated at the Scotch College in Melbourne.

He studied law at University of Melbourne, and subsequently became a member of a well-known firm of solicitors in the city.

[3] In October 1870 entered the assembly for East Bourke in the Conservative and free trade interest.

He was subsequently Postmaster-General of Victoria (July 1874 to August 1875) in the administration of George Kerferd; he held the same office in conjunction with the ministry of education (October 1875 to May 1877) under Sir James McCulloch; and for a short term in 1880 he was chief secretary and minister of education in the first administration of James Service.