John William Ramsden

Sir
John William Ramsden
5th Baronet

Ramsden as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, June 1884
Born (1831-09-14)14 September 1831
Died 15 April 1914(1914-04-15) (aged 82)
Nationality British
Other names Huddersfield
Occupation
Organization Liberal Party

Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (14 Sep 1831 – 15 April 1914) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Biography

Ramsden was born on 14 September 1831 to John Charles Ramsden and his wife Isabella Dundas. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hythe in 1857 and served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858. He resigned through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 9 February 1859.[1] He also sat as MP for Taunton from 1853 to 1857, for the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1859 to 1865, for Monmouth from 1868 to 1874, for the Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire from 1880 to 1885, and finally for Osgoldcross from 1885 to 1886.

He served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1868. He was Lord of the Manor of Huddersfield, and owner of a large proportion of the town as well as a total of 11,248 acres of the West Riding. In addition he owned a 138,000 acre estate in Inverness, and 800 acres of Lincolnshire.[2]

On 2 August 1865 he married Lady Helen Guendolen Seymour, daughter of Edward Adolphus Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, thus acquiring the Bulstrode estate at Gerrards Cross.[3]

References

  1. Department of Information Services (9 June 2009). "Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850" (PDF). House of Commons Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 6, 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  2. John Bateman: The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1873, p375
  3. "The peerage". Retrieved 2011-03-30.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Labouchere
Arthur Mills
Member of Parliament for Taunton
1853 – 1857
With: Henry Labouchere
Succeeded by
Henry Labouchere
Arthur Mills
Preceded by
Edward Drake Brockman
Member of Parliament for Hythe
1857 – 1859
Succeeded by
Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
Preceded by
Edmund Beckett Denison
Viscount Goderich
Member of Parliament for West Riding of Yorkshire
1859 – 1865
With: Edmund Beckett Denison to May 1859
Sir Francis Crossley from May 1859
Constituency divided
Preceded by
Crawshay Bailey
Member of Parliament for Monmouth Boroughs
18681874
Succeeded by
Thomas Cordes
Preceded by
Christopher Beckett Denison
Joshua Fielden
Member of Parliament for Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire
18801885
With: Andrew Fairbairn
Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Osgoldcross
18851886
Succeeded by
Sir John Austin, Bt.
Political offices
Preceded by
Frederick Peel
Under-Secretary of State for War
1857–1858
Succeeded by
The Viscount Hardinge
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
John Ramsden
Ramsden Baronets
(of Byram)
1839–1914
Succeeded by
John Frecheville Ramsden
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