Andrew Cassels Ramsay
Professor Andrew Cassels Ramsay (1867-1908).
1908 Obituary [1]
ANDREW CASSELS RAMSAY was born at Chatham on 4th February 1867.
He received his scholastic education at various schools in Glasgow, and in 1882 be commenced an apprenticeship of five years in the works of Messrs. Duncan Stewart and Co., of London Road Iron Works, Glasgow. During that period he attended evening classes at the Andersonian College and the College of Science and Art, of Glasgow.
On the completion of his articles he remained with the firm for two years as a journeyman and in the drawing office of the marine department.
In September 1889 he went for six months as second engineer in the Asia Minor Steam Ship Co., and then entered the Egyptian Public Works Department, subsequently becoming architectural draughtsman and clerk of works on the building of the Mena House Hotel at the Pyramids, Cairo.
On its completion he re-entered the Egyptian Public Works Department in March 1891 as draughtsman, and in the following year he was appointed chief engineer in the Salt Department of the Egyptian Government.
In 1899 this Department was handed over to the Egyptian Salt and Soda Co., and he was engaged to be their works manager and consulting engineer. Subsequently the company was amalgamated with an oil and cake factory, and he was appointed works manager at Mex, which position he held until his death. During his service with the Egyptian Government he received from the Khedive the Order of the Medjidieh (4th class), and the Order of the Osmanieh (4th class) on leaving the service in 1899.
His death took place at Mex on 10th April 1908, at the age of forty-one.
He became an Associate Member of this Institution in 1902.