5. Whitehill Aisle – the vault
The vaults were opened in 1835, presumably in anticipation of Robert Wardlaw Ramsay’s death in April 1836, and again in 1882, when Robert Balfour tried…
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Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay ran away from home at the age of 16, hoping to join the army. He was helped by his uncle, Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, who paid for his commission, and he travelled to India with his regiment. He began sending birds back to his uncle, a respected ornithologist, and between them they built up a huge and fascinating collection, now in the British Museum. He retired from the army in 1882, and took over Whitehill House, where he made sure to add two huge portraits of himself and his wife to the family collection.
Children of Robert and Louisa – B
The group photo shows five daughters and three granddaughters. The caption is in Robert’s hand, rather shaky (he died in 1885). I think it may…
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Mary Alice Hogg
Mary Alice Hogg was the daughter of Charles Swinton Hogg, Administrator General of Bengal, and Harriet Anne Stirling. She married Colonel Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay of…
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1936 Short memoir of family life at Whitehill
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Collecting Birds
Robert George was born on 25 January 1852 in their Queens Street home, Edinburgh. He was baptised at Whitehill by Dean Ramsay. Whitehill was broken…
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David Wardlaw Ramsay
Midshipman David Wardlaw Ramsay Lieutenant-Commander David Wardlaw Ramsay (11 June, 1890 – 11 March, 1924) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was sent…
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Euphan Wardlaw Ramsay
Euphan was the elder of Arthur Wardlaw Ramsay’s two daughters. She was born in 1931, and married Richard Hanbury Tenison in 1955. Arthur left the…
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Arthur Balcarres Wardlaw Ramsay (1887 – 1956) As a younger son, Arthur (he used his middle name Balcarres) did not expect to inherit Whitehill. He…
Read more...Mary Fraser
Mary Fraser was the only daughter of Alasdair Fraser, Lord Saltoun. She was very fond of her four brothers, and they revelled in their connection…
Read more...The last Wardlaw Ramsay at Whitehill
Four of the children at Whitehill, 1896 During the first part of the twentieth century the family did live a few…
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