Ramsay

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Ramsay 7.3.1802 at Perry's

A common name but a  one-off in Godwin's diary, apart from Miss Ramsay in 1794 and a Ramsey in 1833. Guesswork might suggest a reporter like Spanky who was also at Perry's that day or some other Scottish connection of Perry's. There was a William Ramsay who was shorthand taker at the Old Bailey in 1801. William Ramsay was clerk in the secretary's office at East India House 1768-1794 and then served as secretary till 1813, William Ramsay junior was clerk in the same office from 1800 to 1816. William Ramsay wrote on the Solubility of Earths in Nicholson's Journal 1807. There were many more