In 1834, he married Catherine Davidson, and together they had a daughter, Catherine Lilias Harriet.[2]
Between 1833 and 1859, he published many works between.[2]
Due to failing health, Ramsay resigned his professorship in May 1863. He spent the following winter in Rome, collating the most important manuscripts of Plautus.[2]
Hutton's "Course of Mathematics", remodelled by W. R. 1833, 8vo. 2.
An Elementary Treatise on Latin Prosody, Glasgow, 1837, 12mo; revised 1859, 8vo. 3.
Elegiac Extracts from Tibullus and Ovid, with notes, 1840, 12mo, and other editions.
Cicero Pro Cluentio, edited with prolegomena, 1858, 8vo. 5.
An Elementary Manual of Roman Antiquities, with illustrations, London and Glasgow, 1859, 8vo, and other editions.
The Mostellaria of Plautus, with notes, 1869, 8vo (posthumous).
Ramsay also wrote a Manual of Roman Antiquities in the third division of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana (1848, etc.), and contributed to William Smith's dictionaries of Classical ‘Antiquities,’ ‘Geography,’ and ‘Biography,’ including the article on Cicero.
Referencesedit
^ abcMemoirs and portraits of one hundred Glasgow men - William Ramsay
^ abcdefg"Ramsay, William (1806-1865)" entry in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 47.
^"Ramsay, William (RMSY825W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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