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Colonel '''Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay''' FLS, FZS (25 January 1852 – 22 April 1921) was an army officer and naturalist. His father was Robert Balfour Wardlaw-Ramsay while his mother Louisa was the third daughter of George, eighth Marquess of Tweeddale. He studied at Cheam and Harrow before joining the Hampshire Regiment in January 1871 to be stationed in India, Afghanistan and Burma. His interest in birds began as a young boy and in 1872 (aged 20) he was elected a member of the [[British Ornithologists' Union]] and was later (1913-1918) to become its president. He was also a Fellow of the Zoological Society. During his various army postings he took a great interest in the local ornithology. He was a nephew of [[Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale]] and inherited a large collection of over 20,000 bird skins that was later presented to the British Museum. He also edited ''The Ornithological works of Arthur 9th Marquis of Tweeddale'' (1881) and towards the end of his life was writing a ''Guide to the birds of Europe and North Africa'' (1923) which was published posthumously.<ref name=obit>Clarke, William Eagle (1923) Preface in Guide to the Birds of Europe and North Africa. Gurney and Jackson, London.</ref><ref name="Anon 1921">{{cite journal|author=Anon. |year=1921|title=Obituary.|journal=Ibis |pages=538–540|doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1921.tb01287.x|url=https://archive.org/stream/ibis311brit#page/538/mode/1up|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>Warr, F. E. 1996. Manuscripts and Drawings in the ornithology and Rothschild libraries of The Natural History Museum at Tring. BOC.</ref><br />
[[File:RGWardlawRamsay.jpg|thumb|left|upright|In later life]]<br />
He was married to the elder daughter of Charles Swinton Hogg, Administrator-General of Bengal. He actively corresponded with other ornithologists in the region and many of his notes were published by [[Allan Octavian Hume]] in ''Stray Feathers''.<ref name="Anon 1921"/><br />
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He saw action during the [[First Anglo-Afghan War|Afghan Campaign]] and also served in Burma and on the Andaman Islands. He later joined the Highland Light Infantry, becoming commander of the 7th Volunteer Battalion of the Royal Scots. He retired from the Army in 1882, shortly after the death of his father, and took to working in the County of Midlothian,<ref name=obit/> where he served as [[Deputy Lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27294 |date=15 March 1901 |page=1858}}</ref><br />
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* [https://archive.org/details/guidetobirdsofeu00rams Guide to the birds of Europe and North Africa]<br />
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