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The Founder Freda Ramsay

Freda Ramsay, the founder of the Ramsay Foundation, was born in 1910 in Liverpool, Great Britain. She studied art, education, history and languages. As a teacher she spent many years in Africa and Jamaica. She met her husband, Major William Ramsay, in Egypt. Together they lived in Detroit (USA), India and Great Britain. Throughout her life Freda Ramsay dedicated herself to humanitarian and philanthropic activities. In the last years of her life she donated much of her wealth to educational and cultural causes. She died in England in the year 2002.