John Frecheville Ramsden

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]

Biography

Ramsden's parents were John William Ramsden and Lady Helen Guendolen Ramsden (née Seymour), the daughter and co-heiress of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Ramsden was commissioned into the British Army, serving in World War I with the Norfolk Yeomanry, promoted to Captain.

When his mother died in 1910 he inherited Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire.[4][5] In 1917, he inherited Muncaster Castle.[5](p209)

He was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire for 1920/21.[6]

In 1927 he purchased land in Africa, near the border between Kenya and Tanganyika Territory. He owned property near Naivasha and he was an occassional house-guest of the Happy Valley set whilst he lived in that area.[7][8][5]

Ramsden died at Ardverikie House on 6 October 1958.[7]

Family

In 1901 he married Joan Buxton (who died in 1974), the sister of an old school friend and the eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Fowell Buxton CB.[5] Sir John and Lady Ramsden had issue:[9]

  • 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),[10]
      • Major Sebastian St Maur Miller[11] born 1965, married to Emma Harries[12] with a son and a daughter.[13]
    • 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[14] with two sons and a daughter.
  • Sir (Geoffrey) William Pennington-Ramsden, 7th Baronet (1904–1986).[15]
  • Mary Joyce Ramsden, born 1907, married 1929 Major-General Sir Randle Guy Feilden, and died 2000, leaving three sons.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "www.thegazette.co.uk" (PDF).
  2. ^ "New volume tells the story of a great Badenoch house". Strathspey Herald. January 26, 2023.
  3. ^ "Europeans In East Africa - View entry". www.europeansineastafrica.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Bulstrode Estate". National Archives. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Meriel Buxton (2020). "A Ramsden Family Perspective". Power in the Land: The Ramsdens and their Huddersfield Estate, 1542−1920. University of Huddersfield Press. doi:10.5920/pitl.07. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  6. ^ "Home".
  7. ^ a b "RAMSDEN, John Frecheville 'Chops', Sir". Europeans in Africa. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  8. ^ Osborne, Frances (2010). The bolter. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  9. ^ "Burke's Peerage". burkespeerage.com.
  10. ^ Davies-Evitt, Dora (September 13, 2022). "The Marquess of Cholmondeley replaced by Lord Carrington as Lord Great Chamberlain". Tatler.
  11. ^ "www.thegazette.co.uk" (PDF).
  12. ^ "Grimsthorpe Castle, Park and Gardens |".
  13. ^ "College of Arms - College of Arms". www.college-of-arms.gov.uk.
  14. ^ "Stody Lodge Gardens History". Stody Estate.
  15. ^ "The Pennington Family at Muncaster Castle". Muncaster Castle.
  16. ^ "Debrett's Guide to the Peerage & Baronetage and Royal Family". debretts.com. June 5, 2021.
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