RAM FRCO FCTL FRSE (4 March 1906 – 22 September 1971) was a music scholar, academic, pianist and conductor.
In 1930, he was appointed lecturer at Armstrong College, Durham, and as conductor of Newcastle upon Tyne's Bach choir.
He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1941, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Durham University in 1946.
[1][2] In the late 1960s he was the guiding light in procuring the Raymond Russell collection of early keyboard instruments and finding a home for them in the University of Edinburgh's St Cecilia's Hall, where once again he played a major part in the original refurbishment of this historic concert hall which now houses the University of Edinburgh's internationally important collection of musical instruments.
According to The Times, "though a skilled contrapuntist and scholar, notably of Bach, he published little ... but [at the Reid School] was able to sustain the high standards of musicianship, scholarship and performance established during Tovey's reign—indeed he was a less erratic conductor".