Background
He was a younger son of Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet (1755–1839), the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Grampound, and his wife Honorary Louisa Susan Ingram-Shepheard (c1766–1857), daughter of the 9th Viscount of Irvine.
He was a younger son of Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet (1755–1839), the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Grampound, and his wife Honorary Louisa Susan Ingram-Shepheard (c1766–1857), daughter of the 9th Viscount of Irvine.
He sat in the House of Commons between 1812 and 1836. 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.
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 Reform Acting 1832, 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 Member of Parliament for the Malton, at a by-election after the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament Viscount Milton resigned to contest a vacancy in the Northern division of Northamptonshire.
He was re-elected unopposed in 1835, and held the seat until his death in 1836, aged 48.
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