The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter

John Charles Ramsden (30 April 1788 – 29 December 1836) was a British Whig politician from Newby Park in

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. He sat in the

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between 1812 and 1836.

Early life

He was the eldest son of

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(1755–1839), the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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, and his wife Hon. Louisa Susan Ingram-Shepheard (–1857), daughter of the 9th Viscount of Irvine. His younger brother, Captain Henry James Ramsden (1799–1871), is the direct ancestor the 8th and 9th Ramsden Baronets.

Career

At the 1812 general election, Ramsden was elected as one of the two MPs for borough of Malton. He was re-elected at the next four general elections, and held the seat until 1831. At the 1831 general election he was elected as one of the four MPs for the Yorkshire county constituency.Stooks Smith, page 393 He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Yorkshire in May 1831, and held his seat in Parliament until the constituency was divided by the

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, and at the general election in December 1832 he unsuccessfully contested the new North Riding of Yorkshire constituency. He was returned to the Commons three months later, when he was elected without a contest as MP for the Malton, at a by-election after the sitting Liberal MP

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resigned to contest a vacancy in the Northern division of Northamptonshire.Craig, page 204 He was re-elected unopposed in

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, and held the seat until his death.

Personal life

On 4 May 1814, he married Isabella Dundas (1790–1887), daughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas of Aske and Lady Charlotte FitzWilliam. Isabella's maternal grandfather was

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, and her uncle was William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam, a leading Whig politician and one of the richest people in Britain. Together, they were the parents of: * Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (1831–1914), who married Lady Helen Guendolen Seymour, daughter of

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, in 1865. He died in 1836, aged only 48. As he predeceased his father, his son

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succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather, the 4th baronet in 1839.

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