[3] He was sometime president of the Debating Society[4] and as his practice developed he specialised in appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
[5] According to reports[citation needed] Ramsay was always a keen proponent of his native country Scotland, its institutions and traditions.
[6] Ramsay's first attempt to enter Parliament came at the 1922 general election when he stood as a Lloyd George National Liberal candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency.
[7] At the election Ramsay faced a three-cornered contest against Labour's John Macdiarmid, a retired railway auditor and Unionist candidate Captain Ian Moffat-Pender, a former Scottish Rugby international.
[12] Ramsay was one of the possible National candidates for the by-election which occurred in Ross and Cromarty when Sir Ian Macpherson announced he was to stand down on medical advice.
[14] A memorial service was held for him at St Columba's Church in Pont Street on 13 November 1956 at which his sister was the chief mourner.