John Charles Ramsden

John Charles Ramsden (30 April 1788 – 29 December 1836)[1][2] was a British Whig[3] and Liberal Party[4] politician from Newby Park in Yorkshire.[5] He sat in the House of Commons between 1812 and 1836.

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Family

He was a younger son of Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet (1755–1839), the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grampound, and his wife Hon. Louisa Susan Ingram-Shepheard (c.1766–1857), daughter of the 9th Viscount of Irvine.[6] On 4 May 1814 he married Isabella Dundas (1790–1887), daughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas of Aske and Lady Charlotte FitzWilliam.[7] Isabella's maternal grandfather was William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam,[8] and her uncle was William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, a leading Whig politician and one of the richest people in Britain.

Politics

At the 1812 general election, Ramsden was elected as one of the two MPs for borough of Malton.[3][9] He was re-elected at the next four general elections,[10][11] [12][13] and held the seat until 1831.[2] At the 1831 general election he was elected as one the four MPs for the Yorkshire county constituency.[5][14] He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire in May 1831,[15] and held his seat in Parliament until the constituency was divided by the Reform Act 1832,[1] and at the general election in December 1832 he unsuccessfully contested the new North Riding of Yorkshire constituency.[4]

He was returned to the Commons three months later, when he was elected without a contest[16] as MP for the Malton,[17] at a by-election after the sitting Liberal MP Viscount Milton resigned to contest a vacancy in the Northern division of Northamptonshire.[16] He was re-elected unopposed in 1835,[18] and held the seat until his death in 1836, aged 48.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Y"
  2. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
  3. ^ a b Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S.. ed. The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 414. ISBN 0-900178-13-2. 
  4. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 489. ISBN 0-900178-26-4. 
  5. ^ a b London Gazette: no. 18804. p. 948. 17 May 1831. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  6. ^ Lundy, Darryl. "John Charles Ramsden". ThePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p6199.htm#i61985. Retrieved 9 December 2010. 
  7. ^ Lundy, Darryl. "Isabella Dundas". ThePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p2626.htm#i26257. Retrieved 9 December 2010. 
  8. ^ Lundy, Darryl. "ILady Charlotte FitzWilliam". ThePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p940.htm#i9393. Retrieved 9 December 2010. 
  9. ^ London Gazette: no. 16662. p. 2166. 27 October 1812. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  10. ^ London Gazette: no. 17376. p. 1217. 7 July 1818. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  11. ^ London Gazette: no. 17627. p. 1635. 26 August 1820. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  12. ^ London Gazette: no. 18268. p. 1752. 14 July 1826. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  13. ^ London Gazette: no. 18721. p. 1831. 27 August 1830. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  14. ^ Stooks Smith, page 393
  15. ^ London Gazette: no. 18813. p. 1168. 14 June 1831. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  16. ^ a b Craig, page 204
  17. ^ London Gazette: no. 19030. p. 523. 15 March 1833. Retrieved 8 December 2010.
  18. ^ London Gazette: no. 19234. p. 170. 30 January 1835. Retrieved 8 December 2010.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Bryan Cooke
Robert Lawrence Dundas		 Member of Parliament for Malton
1812 – 1831
With: Viscount Duncannon 1812–26
Viscount Normanby 1826–30
Sir James Scarlett 1830 – April 1831
Francis Jeffrey from April 1831		 Succeeded by
Henry Gally Knight
Francis Jeffrey
Preceded by
Richard Bethell
William Duncombe
Viscount Morpeth
Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt		 Member of Parliament for Yorkshire
1831 – 1832
With: George Strickland
Viscount Morpeth
Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt		 Constituency divided
Preceded by
Viscount Milton (1)
Charles Pepys		 Member of Parliament for Malton
1833 – 1836
With: Charles Pepys to 1836
John Childers from 1836		 Succeeded by
Viscount Milton (2)
John Childers