RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL (185r )

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RAMSAY, SIR WILLIAM MITCHELL (185r ) , British archaeologist, was born on the 15th of

March

1851. He was educated at the universities of Aberdeen,

Oxford

and Gottingen, and was a fellow of

Exeter

EXETER
EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

College,

Oxford

(1882; honorary fellow 1898), and Lincoln College (1885; honorary 1899). In 1885 he was elected professor of classical art at Oxford, and in the next year professor of humanity at Aberdeen. From 1880 onwards he travelled widely in

Asia

ASIA

Minor

and rapidly became the re-cognized authority on all matters relating to the districts associated with St Paul's missionary journeys and on Christianity in the early Roman Empire. He received the honorary degrees of D.C.L. Oxford, LL.D. St Andrews and Glasgow, D.D. Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1906. He was elected a member of learned

societies

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

in Europe and America, and has been awarded medals by the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the University of

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

. His numerous publications include: The Historical Geography-of

Asia

ASIA

Minor

(1890); - The

Church

in the Roman Empire (1893) ;
The Cities and Bishoprics of

Phrygia

PHRYGIA

(2 vols., 1895, 1897);
St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen (1895; Germ.
trans., 1898); Impressions of Turkey (1897); Was Christ born at Bethlehem? (1898); Historical Commentary on Galatians (1899); The Education of Christ (1902); The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia (1905); Pauline and other Studies in Early Christian History (1906); Studies in the History and
Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire (1906);
The Cities of St Paul (1907); Lucan and Pauline Studies
(1908); The Thousand and One Churches (with Miss Gertrude L. Bell, 1909); and articles in learned

periodicals

PERIODICALS

and the 9th, loth and 1 rth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Lady Ramsay, granddaughter of Dr Andrew Marshall of Kirkintilloch, accompanied him in many of his journeys and is the
author of Everyday Life in Turkey (1897) and The Romance of Elisavet (1899).

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