Eugene Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden
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Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden, (2 February 1883 – 9 August 1955) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
At the 1923 general election he stood unsuccessfully in the Spen Valley constituency in West Yorkshire, held by the senior Liberal MP John Simon. He came third, with 22% of the votes, behind Labour.
Ramsden did not stand again in Spen Valley, and at the 1924 general election he contested the marginal seat of Bradford North, where the Liberal Walter Rea had been elected in 1923 with a majority of only 173. Ramsden won the seat with a majority of 2,017, but was defeated at the 1929 general election by Labour's Norman Angell.
The Labour vote collapsed at the 1931 general election after Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald split his party and formed a National Government. Ramsden stood again in Bradford North, ousting Angell with a majority of over 18,000 votes.[1] He held the seat comfortably at the 1935 election, and represented Bradford North until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 general election.
He was made a Baronet, of Birkenshaw in the County of Yorkshire in 1938. After leaving the Commons in 1945, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Ramsden, of Birkenshaw in the County of Yorkshire. Both titles became extinct upon his death in 1955.
Ramsden was a council member of the British Council, and is named in the Council's charter, granted in 1940. he was described in 1927 as a "whole-hearted and keen Imperialist".[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ See Craig, op. cit.
- ^ dispatch from the Australian High Commission in London
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[edit] References
- UK General Elections since 1832
- Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Walter Rea |
Member of Parliament for Bradford North 1924–1929 |
Succeeded by Norman Angell |
| Preceded by Norman Angell |
Member of Parliament for Bradford North 1931–1945 |
Succeeded by Muriel Nichol |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baron Ramsden 1945–1955 |
Succeeded by (extinct) |
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baronet (of Birkenshaw) 1938–1955 |
Succeeded by (extinct) |
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