A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ramsay, John Douglas
RAMSAY. (Lieut., 1829. f-p., 24; h-p., 5.)
John Douglas Ramsay, born in Feb. 1805, is son of Capt. Robt. Ramsay, R.N., C.B.
This officer (who in 1814-15 had served with his father on board the Regulus 44, and had in that ship visited the Chesapeake) entered the Royal Naval College 3 Dec. 1818, and embarked, 24 Aug. 1821, as a Volunteer, on board the Nimrod 18, Capt. Chas. Nelson, attached to the force on the west coast of Scotland. He was subsequently employed as Midshipman on the Home, South American, and African stations in the Impregnable 104, Sappho 18, Brazen 26, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, Brittania 120, Brazen again, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, Prince Regent 120, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, and Alert 18, Capt. Sam. Burgess. In June, 1827, six months after he had passed his examination, he became Mate of the Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill; and, on 23 Jan. 1829, being then at the Cape of Good Hope, he was made Lieutenant into the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Sanders. In the following April he returned to England and was paid off. His appointments have since been – 18 March, 1833, to the Coast Guard – 27 June, 1837, to the command of the Nimble Revenue-vessel – and, 15 July, 1840, again to the Coast Guard, in which he continues.
Lieut. Ramsay married, 18 Dec. 1839, his cousin Jessie, only daughter of the late J. S. Newall, Esq., and was left a widower with one son, 2 Nov. 1844. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.