Robert Ramsay (cricketer)

Robert Christian Ramsay (20 December 1861 – 25 June 1957) was an English-born pastoralist and businessman who worked in Queensland, Australia.

Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Ramsay spent his early childhood in Australia, but moved back to England with his family in March 1874 to enable him and his older brother to receive an education.

In 1883, he left Cambridge without graduating and returned to Australia where, after working as a jackaroo at Winbar Station in New South Wales for nearly two years, he joined his brother Frank at Eton Vale, a large pastoral station on Queensland's Darling Downs owned by their father Robert Burnett Ramsay and Arthur Hodgson.

Bob Ramsay remained in Australia until his retirement in June 1920, when he returned with his wife and children to England and settled in Bekesbourne, Kent.

He also played for the school's cricket team, alongside his older brother Marmaduke Francis Ramsay, better known as Frank.

[2] Ramsay followed his older brother to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and in his first year played in the freshmen's trial match in which he claimed six wickets, five of them in the first innings.

He used modern technology to achieve this, including "private telephone-lines, shearing machines, Humber motorcycles and Serpollet steam-motorcars.

[1] He took over management of the family estates upon his brother Frank's retirement to England in November 1908, and two years later became a founding member of the Brisbane branch of the Round Table.

Between 1914 and 1917, he was a member of the Queensland Recruiting Committee but left in protest over the failure of the 1916 Federal Government referendum to introduce conscription.