Peggy Ramsay

Margaret Francesca "Peggy" Ramsay (née Venniker, 27 May 1908 – 4 September 1991) was a British theatrical agent.

Early life

Although Ramsay was born to English parents in Molong, New South Wales, Australia, her family eventually settled in South Africa by the end of the Great War in which her father served in the South African Medical Corps. but during a brief and unhappy marriage came to England in 1929; her husband Norman Ramsay was under investigation in South Africa. After touring with an opera company, and a spell as an actress, she began reading scripts for a number of managements including that of Peter Daubeny, later noted for organising annual 'World Theatre' Seasons.

Theatrical agent

As she was gaining no financial return from scripts she was finding, in 1953 her friends and acquaintances persuaded her to open her own agency, in which they invested. For her entire career her business was based in Goodwin's Court, an alley off St. Martin's Lane, London. She was able to buy out her partners in 1963, after the success of her first "discovery'", Robert Bolt.