Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Charles Maule Ramsay (27 January 1859 – 7 April 1936)[1] was a British army officer and briefly a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (MP).
The vacancy was caused when the sitting Liberal MP, Sir John Rigby was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal.
[2] The Liberals had chosen a London-based stockbroker as their candidate in preference to a local businessman, Martin White, a decision that led to many voters switching their allegiance to Ramsay, who gained the seat.
[3] He contested the seat in the following 1897 by-election and 1900 general election, but lost to the Liberal party candidate John Sinclair both times.
Following the ending of the conflict he devoted himself to voluntary work supporting the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.