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See also:RAMSAY, See also:DAVID (1749—1815) , See also:American physician and historian, the son of an Irish emigrant, was See also:born in See also:Lancaster See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 2nd of See also:April 1749. He See also:graduate( at See also:Princeton in 1765, and M.B. at the University of See also:Penn sylvania in 1773, and then settled as a physician at Charlestor: See also:South Carolina, where he had a large practice. During tht See also:War of See also:Independence he served as a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field-surgeon (178o-1781), and from 1776 to 1783 he was a member of the South Carolins legislature. Having acted as one of the " See also:council of safety ' at See also:Charleston, he was, on the See also:capture of that See also:city in 178c. seized by the See also:British as a See also:hostage, and for nearly a See also:year wat kept.in confinement at St See also:Augustine. From 1782 to 1786 ht served in the See also:Continental See also:Congress, and from 18o1 to 1815 ir the See also:state See also:Senate, of which he was See also:long See also:president. In 1785 he published in two volumes See also:History of the Revolution of South Carolina, in 1789 in two volumes History of the American Revolution, in 1807 a See also:Life of See also:Washington, and in 1809 in two volumes a History of South Carolina. He was also the author of several See also:minor See also:works. He died at Charleston on the 8th of May 1815 from a See also:wound inflicted by a lunatic. His History of the See also:United States in 3 vols. was published posthumously in 1816—1817, and forms the first three volumes of his Universal History Americanized, published in 12 vols. in 1819.
.RAMSAY, See also:ROBERT (1842—1882), Australian statesman, was a native of See also:Hawick, See also:Roxburghshire, but his parents emigrated to See also:Victoria when he was a See also:child of four, and he was educated at the Scottish See also:college in See also:Melbourne. He studied See also:law at Melbourne University, and subsequently became a member of a well-known See also:firm of solicitors in the city. He married in 1868 See also:Isabella See also:Catherine See also:Urquhart, and in 1870 entered the See also:assembly for See also:East See also:Bourke in the Conservative and See also:free See also:trade See also:interest. He was a member of the See also:government of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Goodall See also:Francis in 1872—74. He was subsequently postmaster-See also:general (1874—75) in the See also:administration of See also:George Biscoe Kerferd; he held the same See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in See also:conjunction with the See also:ministry of See also:education (1875—77) under See also:Sir James M`Culloch; and for a See also:short See also:term in 188o hH was See also:chief secretary and See also:minister of education in the first administration of James Service. He died on the 23rd of May 1882.
End of Article: RAMSAY, DAVID (1749—1815)
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