A michael ramsey
[ram-zee] /ˈræm zi/
noun
arthur michael (baron ramsey of canterbury) 1904–1988, english clergyman and scholar: archbishop of canterbury 1961–74.
a town in ne new jersey.
a town in se minnesota.
a male given name: from a scandinavian word meaning “wooded island.”.
ramsey
/ˈræmzɪ/
noun
sir alf(red) (ernest). 1922–99, english footballer and football manager, who played for england 32 times and managed england when they won the world cup (1966)
ramsey
town (parish), huntingdonshire district, administrative county of cambridgeshire, historic county of huntingdonshire, england. the town serves an intensively cultivated hinterland on the southwest border of the fens, a reclaimed region adjoining the north sea. ramsey developed around a 10th-century benedictine abbey, which was granted freedom from ecclesiastical and secular control before the norman conquest (1066). the abbey was an early english seat of learning, with a library of hebrew books. after the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-39), its demesnes were granted to sir richard cromwell, ancestor of oliver cromwell. a grammar school now occupies part of the site of the abbey. pop. (2001) 8,047.
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