Ramsay, John (1872 - 1944)

During World War I he was Major in charge of surgery at Hornsey Military Hospital in Launceston. Ramsay was President of the Tasmanian branch of the British Medical Association (1925); Foundation Fellow of the (Royal) Australasian College of Surgeons (1927); Chairman of the Northern Tasmanian division of St John Ambulance Association for 17 years (commander brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem 1937); President of the Launceston Club; first chairman of the Equity Trustees Co. of Tasmania and the Goliath Portland Cement Co.; Director of the board of Kiwi Polish Co.; and a member of the executive of the Medical Council of Tasmania, Crippled Children's Association, Anti-Cancer Campaign, and Red Cross Society. The Sir John Ramsay Memorial Library at the Launceston General Hospital was established in his memory in 1944.

Chronology

1812 -	Private practice at St Margaret's Hospital in Launceston
1889 - 1912	Surgeon-Superintendent at the Launceston General Hospital
1893	Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1894	Resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital
1895	Resident Medical Officer in Auckland, New Zealand
1895 - 1898	House Surgeon at the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania
1902	Master of Surgery (MS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1912 - 1917	Honorary Consulting Surgeon at Launceston Hospital
1924	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1925	President of the British Medical Association, Tasmanian branch
1925 - 1944	Honorary Consulting Surgeon at Launceston Hospital
1927	Foundation Fellow of the Australasian College of Surgeons (FCS/FRCS)
1929 -	Member of the board of management of the Launceston Hospital
1933 -	Chairman of the Launceston Hospital
1939	Knighted