The fifth Baronet sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth then Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858.
The seventh Baronet assumed in 1925 by Deed Poll the surname of Pennington in lieu of his patronymic according to the will of the late Lord Muncaster (see Baron Muncaster); however, in 1958 he resumed the use of the surname of Ramsden in addition to that of Pennington.
The present and 9th Baronet retired from a career in HM Diplomatic Service after serving as the British Ambassador to Croatia from 2004 to 2008.
[3] The Ramsden Baronetcy, of Birkensaw in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1938.
The heir presumptive is the present baronet's sixth cousin once removed, Colin John Ramsden (born 1949), who lives in Tasmania and is a sixth-great-grandson of the second baronet through his younger son Robert Ramsden.