found: New light on Allan Ramsay.
found: Thirty Scots songs, 1770?:title page (Allen Ramsey)
found: DNB(Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758))
found: Encyclopedia Britannica(Ramsay, Allan; born October 15, 1686; died January 7, 1758)
found: Academic American encyclopedia, 1986(Ramsay, Allan; born October 15, 1686; died January 7, 1758)
found: BL authority fiche, August 1990(Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758)
found: Thirty Scots songs, between 1773 and 1778:title page ( Allan Ramsey)
found: English Wikipedia, viewed 16 November 2022(Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686-7 January 1758) was a Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, librarian, and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh; he was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire; in 1701, Allan was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh and received his indentures back by 1709; Ramsay's first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate; in the society of the members he assumed the name of Isaac Bickerstaff, and later of Gawin Douglas; by 1718 he had made some reputation as a writer of occasional verse and then (or a year earlier) he turned bookseller in the premises where he had hitherto plied his craft of wig-making; in 1725 he removed to another shop, in the neighbouring Luckenbooths, where he opened a circulating library and extended his business as a bookseller; Ramsay is considered to have created the first circulating library in Britain when he rented books from his shop in 1726; in 1755 he retired from his shop to the house on the slope of the Castle Rock, still known as Ramsay Lodge)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Dec. 18, 2024(Ramsay, Allan (1684 - 1758), poet, was born on 15 October 1684 at Leadhills, in Crawfordmuir parish, Lanarkshire, the son of John Ramsay (c.1660 - 1685), factor to the Hope estate and superintendent of its lead mines, and the probably Scots-born Alice (d. 1700), daughter of Allan Bower, gentleman and mineralogist of Derbyshire. Ramsay has long been alleged to be a descendant of the Douglas family and a relative of the Ramsays of Dalhousie; there is little evidence for this, and even his status as the great-great-grandson of Ramsay, laird of Cockpen, is doubtful and may be a result of the search by one of his sons, the younger Allan Ramsay, for illustrious forebears.)
