William Ramsay (b.1835)

William Ramsay was born at Dalkeith, Perthshire, and came out to Toronto, Upper Canada, in 1854. He became a successful dry goods merchant and co-founded the Imperial Bank with John Fisken of Lawton Park. He became the largest shareholder of the Imperial Bank and vice-President of the Toronto, Grey & Bruce Railway. In 1882, he retired to his native Scotland where he bought the Bowland estate, though he frequently returned to Toronto to maintain his business interests there. In 1897, he married Georgina, daughter of Robert Keith Pringle (1802-1897) J.P., D.L., Selkirkshire, who had replaced Sir Charles Napier as Governor of Sind in India.