On his father's succeeding to the family estates he quitted Harlsey indeed, but only to move to Durham, which left no more pleasant memories in his mind than the other, although there he learned to blow the flute, and indulge his strong musical taste.

He writes of Durham school that it had fallen off terribly, from the increasing infirmities of the head master, and Ramsay was anxious to leave it, when that move came naturally by the death of his father[2].

Writing in his journal some time afterwards, he says, "What was I to do?
I was determined to go into the Church, and must go to college.

How was the intermediate period to be spent ?" His first private tutor was the Rev.J.H.Browne, at Kegworth in Leicestershire, afterwards Archdeacon of Ely.

"Here," says Edward, "I did learn something both of books and of the world.