Eugene Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden

[1] Ramsden stood unsuccessfully for the Spen Valley constituency in West Yorkshire at the 1923 general election, held by the senior Liberal John Simon.

Ramsden won the seat with a majority of 2,017, but was defeated at the 1929 general election by Labour's Norman Angell.

The Labour vote collapsed at the 1931 general election after Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split his party and formed a National Government.

[4] After leaving the House of Commons in 1945, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Ramsden, of Birkenshaw in the West Riding of the County of York.

[7] Lord Ramsden married Margaret Enid, daughter of Frank Eugene Withey and widow of Major George Wells Farwell, in 1919.