Andrew Michael Ramsay ( 1686 - 1743 )

Birth: Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland (09 July 1686) Death: St-Germain-en-Laye, France (06 May 1743) Education: School in Ayr; Edinburgh; Oxford; DCL (1730) Career: Tutor to the sons of the Earl of Wemyss; served in the army in the Netherlands (1706-1710); converted to Roman Catholicism by Archbishop Fenelon (1710), whose papers he inherited and whose biographer he became; Tutor to the Duc de Chateau-Thierry (1715); created a Knight of St Lazarus (1715), after which he was known as the Chevalier Ramsay; Tutor to the sons of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, in Rome (1724-1725); travelled to England (1730); Tutor to the Vicomte de Turenne (1730) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 11/12/1729 Proposers: Sylvanus Bevan; Sir Hans Sloane; Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond.