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Studied Medicine At Edinburgh: RAE, ra, John, Scottish Arctic explorer: b.near Stromness, Orkney Islands, Sept. 30, 1813; d. London, England, July 22, 1893. He studied medicine at Edinburgh. In 1833 he joined the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon, and from 1835 until 1845 served as its resident surgeon at Moose Factory. The following year he made his first exploring expedition, covering 700 miles of the northern coast of America along Committee Bay.
ROLPH, rolf, John, Canadian politician and physician: b. Thornbury, England, March 4, 1793; d. Mitchell, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 19, 1870. He studied law and medicine, emigrated to Canada in 1812, and in 1821 was called to the bar. He engaged in law practice and later also practiced medicine. He served in the Assembly of Upper Canada from 1824 to 1837. With William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) he planned the insurrection of 1837 and upon its failure sought safety in the United States. After the amnesty of 1843 he returned to Canada and sat in the Canadian Parliament from 1845 until his retirement from politics in 1857. He afterward devoted himself to the practice of medicine and founded the Peoples' School of Medicine, which later became a faculty of the University of Toronto.
RAMSAY, Allan, Scottish portrait painter: b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1713 ; d. Dover, England, Aug. 10, 1784. A son of the poet Allan Ramsay, he studied in London, and later in Naples with Francesco Solimena, whose grandiose style of historical painting he attempted for a time. But portraiture was his metier, as he soon convinced fashionable Edinburgh. In 1767, through the influence of the 3d earl of Bute, he became painter in ordinary to George III, who liked to give favored personages full-length portraits of himself and Queen Charlotte; tradition says there were 90 in all. Ramsay often painted only the heads, leaving the rest to an assistant, usually Philip Reinagle.
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