Craufurd Tait Ramage

Craufurd Tait Ramage (1803–1878) was a Scottish travel writer and anthologist.

Life Born at Annfield, Newhaven, Edinburgh, on 10 September 1803, Ramage was educated at Wallace Hall, Dumfriesshire, and at Edinburgh High School. He graduated M.A. at Edinburgh University in 1825.

While at university Ramage took private pupils, including Archibald Campbell Tait with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship. After leaving college he became tutor in the family of Sir Henry Lushington, 2nd Baronet, and spent three years with his pupils in Naples, also touring. For 15 years after his return to Scotland he was tutor in the family of Thomas Spring-Rice.

Works Ramage published four anthologies, entitled Beautiful Thoughts: respectively "from Greek Authors, with English Translations, and Lives of the Authors", Liverpool, 1864; "from Latin Authors, with English Translations", Liverpool, 1864; 3rd edit. enlarged, 1877; "from French and Italian Authors, with English Translations and Lives of the Authors", Liverpool, 1866; "from German and Spanish Authors", Liverpool, 1868. Other works were: The book has been compared to later works by Keppel Craven and Arthur John Strutt. Drumlanrig Castle and the Douglases: with the Early History and Ancient Remains of Durisdeer, Closeburn, and Morton, Dumfries, 1876 Bible Echoes in Ancient Classics, Edinburgh, 1878

He contributed to the Quarterly Journal of Education, the Penny Cyclopædia, and Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition.