Richard Bury Ramsbotham MBE (27 April 1880 – 23 September 1970) was an English first-class cricketer, British Indian Army officer and educator.
The son of Philip Bury Ramsbotham and Florence Elizabeth King, he was born at Prestwich in April 1880.
[1] From Magdalen he was appointed to the Indian Education Service in June 1908, where he filled a vacant post as an inspector of schools in Eastern Bengal and Assam, alongside James Alexander Richey.
[3] He gained his Master of Arts from Magdalen College in 1912, before serving in the First World War as a lieutenant with the British Indian Army, seeing action in Mesopotamia and the North-West Frontier Province.
[7] While serving with the 45th Rattray's Sikhs, he was made an acting captain in February 1918,[8] a rank which he relinquished in March 1919 following the end of the war.