Sir John Frecheville Ramsden, 6th Baronet JP DL (7 January 1877 – 6 October 1958), was a British aristocrat and landowner of estates in England,[1] Scotland[2] and Africa.[3]
Life
editEducated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Ramsden was commissioned into the British Army, serving in World War I with the Norfolk Yeomanry, promoted Captain. He was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for 1920/21.[4]
Family
editIn 1901 he married Joan Buxton (who died 1974), eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Fowell Buxton CB.
Sir John and Lady Ramsden had issue:[5]
- John St. Maur Ramsden, born 26 April 1902, married 20 February 1935 Lady Catherine Mary Clementina Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (1906–1996), and was killed in Malaysia on 7 June 1948, leaving a daughter:
- Carola Eloise Ramsden, born 26 October 1938, married firstly 5 April 1961 George Fillmore Miller III (1934–2016), having a son (senior co-heir to the barony of Willoughby de Eresby),[6]
- She married secondly 4 July 1974 Robert Ernest James Philippi (1932–2021), son of Colonel George Philippi MC, and died 2 August 2009, leaving another son,
- James Jeremy George Philippi born 1975, married to Arabella MacNicol[10] with two sons and a daughter.
- Sir (Geoffrey) William Pennington-Ramsden, 7th Baronet (1904–1986).[11]
- Mary Joyce Ramsden, born 1907, married 1929 Major-General Sir Randle Guy Feilden, and died 2000, leaving three sons.[12]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
- ^ www.strathspey-herald.co.uk
- ^ www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk
- ^ www.highsheriffofbuckinghamshire.com
- ^ www.burkespeerage.com
- ^ www.tatler.com
- ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
- ^ www.grimsthorpe.co.uk
- ^ www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
- ^ www.stodyestate.co.uk
- ^ www.muncaster.co.uk
- ^ www.debretts.com