Andrew Michael Ramsay
Andrew Michael Ramsay (9 January 1686 – 6 May 1743), commonly called the Chevalier Ramsay, was a Scottish-born writer who lived most of his adult life in France. He was a Baronet in the Jacobite Peerage.
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