Bob Ramsay of Oondooroo : his first fifty years / Alec Ramsay
- Bib ID:
- 6388605
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ramsay, Alec, compiler
- Description:
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- [Rhodesia] : Alec Ramsay, [between 1970 and 1975]
- 191 pages, 7 unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm
- Biography/History:
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Queensland grazier and sportsman. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, he attended Ipswich Grammar School in Queensland, Australia until the family moved to England in 1874. With two brothers, Marmaduke and Edward, he formed the Ramsey Bros. Partnership to manage the stations they had acquired with Edward Hodgson in north-west Queensland, Oondooroo and Elderslie (near Winton); Charlotte Plains (near Hughenden) etc. He developed Oondooroo into the most progressive run in north-west Queensland by introducing private telephone lines, shearing machines, motorcycles and motorcars. Bob also excelled at cricket (as a slow bowler) at Harrow, and at Cambridge where he was awarded a Blue in 1882. That year he took twelve wickets against a touring Australian team and was selected to play for the Gentlemen of England against the Australians. After going down from Cambridge, he represented Somerset. Although he played for Queensland against Australia in 1884, his pastoral pursuits precluded further representative or first-class engagements. A fervent imperialist, he was a founding member (1910) of the Brisbane group of the Round Table. He was a member of the Queensland Recruiting Committee from 1914, but resigned in August 1917 over conscription and became president of the Queensland Reinforcements Referendum Committee. In 1895 his cousin Herbert Ramsay was a guest at neighbouring Dagworth when Banjo Paterson and Christina Macpherson composed Waltzing Matilda. Herbert is reputed to be the first person to have sung what became the Australian national song. Following World War I Bob Ramsay took his family to England. He died in Kent in 1957.
- Notes:
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- Limited edition of 20 copies.
- National Library's SR copy has handwritten on title page: One of twenty copies, AR.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1975
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