Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Joseph Black, M.D: With an Introduction Dealing With the Life and Work of Sir William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay was born in Glasgow in 1852. His paternal grandfather was a dyer at Haddington, who in 1780 became a partner in the firm of Arthur & Turnbull, Camlachie, manufacturers of chemicals used by dyers. As Sir William Ramsay has himself related, it is probable that both potassium bichromate and the well-known "Turnbull"s Blue" were discovered by his grandfather. He appears to have been well known to many celebrated French chemists of his day, such as Gay-Lussac, De Morveau, and Vauquelin. He died in 1827, leaving three sons and a daughter - Andrew Ramsay, who afterwards became Sir Andrew Ramsay, F.R.S., head of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; John Ramsay, who became a sugar manufacturer in Demerara; William Ramsay, the father of Sir William Ramsay; and Eliza Ramsay, who was an enthusiastic worker in field botany. William Ramsay was trained as an engineer, and took part in the great railway development of the period.
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