Name Arthur Ramsey | ||
Arthur Stanley Ramsey (1867 – 31 December 1954) was a British mathematician and author of mathematics and physics textbooks. He was Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and its President from 1915–1937.
He was educated at Batley Grammar School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He was a Master at Fettes College from 1890 to 1897, moving into academia in 1897.
In 1902 Ramsey married Mary Agnes, daughter of P. S. Wilson, Vicar of Horbling, Lincs. They had two daughters, Bridget and Margaret, and two sons, philosopher and mathematician Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930) and Michael Ramsey (1904–1988) who was the Archbishop of Canterbury for thirteen years. Mary Agnes was killed in 1927 in a road traffic accident
He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge; his son Frank and wife Margaret are buried in the same plot.