Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Ramsay, Very Rev. Edward (1793-1872), Dean of Edinburgh, was born at Aberdeen, and graduated at Cambridge. He became a popular preacher, was made Dean in 1831, and in 1835 refused a bishopric. He is best known by his extremely popular Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character, which has run through a great many editions.