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Sir John Frecheville Ramsden, 6th Baronet JP DL (7 January 1877 – 6 October 1958), was a British aristocrat and landowner of estates in England, Scotland and Africa.

Life

Educated 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.

Family

In 1901 he married Joan Buxton (who died 1974), eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Fowell Buxton CB.
Sir John and Lady Ramsden had issue:

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

See also

• Ramsden baronets
• Ramsden Estate
• Happy Valley

References

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• 1877 births
• 1958 deaths
• People from Yorkshire
• People educated at Eton College
• Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Baronets in the Baronetage of England
• High sheriffs of Buckinghamshire