RAMSAY, WILLIAM (1868-1914), manufacturer, was born on 6 June 1868 at Glasgow, Scotland, eldest son of John Ramsay (1841-1924) and his wife Margaret, née Thomson. John, 'a religious, resourceful Scot of merchant stock', was born at Forth, Lanarkshire. His early occupations were bookseller, commercial traveller, jeweller, die-sinker and engraver. In June 1878 William arrived in Melbourne with his parents and his three brothers, who included (Sir) John and Hugh. Three sisters and two more brothers were born in Melbourne. The Ramsays settled at Prahran and on leaving school William joined his father in a real estate business, John Ramsay & Son, which prospered sufficiently to enable his father in 1888 to build for his family a mansion, Clydebank, at Essendon. After the boom broke, John Ramsay was a valuer for the Essendon and Melbourne City councils and for the State Savings Bank of Victoria.
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William Ramsay and Hamilton McKellan opened a small factory producing cleaning products in Carlton, Victoria in 1901.Their products included fire-kindlers and antiseptic sawdust, but their most important product was boot polish. In 1906 they produced a new polish called Kiwi and two years later produced Kiwi Dark Tan, which polished, preserved and restored the colour to dark tan shoes.
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