John William Ramsden

Sir
John William Ramsden
5th Baronet
Sir John William Ramsden 5th Baronet
	Ramsden as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, June 1884
Born	John William Ramsden; 14 September 1831
Died	15 April 1914 (aged 82)
Nationality	British
Other names	Huddersfield
Occupations	Politician; High Sheriff of Yorkshire;
Organization	Liberal Party

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

Biography

Arms of Sir John Ramsden, 5th Baronet (right) at Victoria Tower, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, built in 1897 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria: *Argent, on a Chevron between three Fleurs-de-lis Sable as many Rams' heads couped at the neck of the First, augmented with the canton of a baronet* with the Arms of the Borough of Huddersfield (left), based on the arms of Ramsden, which family owned the manor from 1599 to 1920

Born on 14 September 1831 to John Charles Ramsden and his wife the Hon. Isabella Dundas, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hythe in 1857 and served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858.

Ramsden resigned from Parliament by taking 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 stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal Unionist candidate for Osgoldcross in 1886.

Ramsden served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1868/69. He was lord of the manor of Huddersfield, and, through the Ramsden Estate, owner of a large proportion of the town as well as a total of 11,248 acres of the West Riding. In addition he acquired in 1876 a 138,000 acre deer forest at Ardverikie, Laggan, Inverness-shire,^[2] and 800 acres of Lincolnshire.^[3]

On 2 August 1865 he married Lady Helen Guendolen Seymour, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Adolphus Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, thus acquiring the Bulstrode estate near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire. They had four children: Guendolen Isabella Jane, Hermione Charlotte, Rosamund Isabel and Sir John Frecheville Ramsden, who succeeded to the baronetcy.^[4]

Links with the University of Huddersfield

In 1825 there was an attempt to set up a Scientific and Mechanics Institution in Huddersfield. Supported by a group of donors, Sir John William Ramsden later agreed to become its Patron. Its aims were to instruct local mechanics and tradesmen in scientific principles relating to their work, through lectures and a circulation library. It later became part of the Huddersfield Philosophical Society. Subsequent educational initiatives in Huddersfield included the Young Men's Mental Improvement Society, the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution, and the Technical School. The Technical School and Mechanics' Institute merged to become the Technical College, which subsequently became the College of Technology, then Huddersfield Polytechnic, before being granted University status as the University of Huddersfield in 1992.

The Ramsden Building, named after Sir John William Ramsden, was opened in 1883 by the Huddersfield Technical School and Mechanics' Institute and is situated on Queen Street South, between Milton Church and St Paul's Church, and is now part of the University of Huddersfield campus.

References

^ 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 6 February 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
^ Willie Orr, Deer forests, landlords and crofters, John Donald Publ. 1982, p.40
^ John Bateman: The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1873, p375
^ "The Peerage". Retrieved 30 March 2011.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir John Ramsden
History of Ardverikie

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 March 1859 – May 1859 Sir Francis Crossley, Bt May 1859 – 1865	Constituency divided
Preceded by Crawshay Bailey	Member of Parliament for Monmouth Boroughs 1868–1874	Succeeded by Thomas Cordes
Preceded by Christopher Beckett Denison Joshua Fielden	Member of Parliament for Eastern West Riding of Yorkshire 1880–1885 With: Andrew Fairbairn	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Osgoldcross 1885–1886	Succeeded by John Austin
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	Baronet (of Byram) 1839–1914	Succeeded by John Frecheville Ramsden

[hoc-resignations-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 6 February 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2009.

[2] Willie Orr, Deer forests, landlords and crofters, John Donald Publ. 1982, p.40

[3] John Bateman: The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1873, p375

[4] "The Peerage". Retrieved 30 March 2011.

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