[2] At age 14 Walter Ramsden withdrew from Manchester Grammar School to study privately at home.
By means of a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in Medical Sciences he studied from 1893 to 1896 at Zürich, at Vienna, and then at Guy's Hospital, qualifying M.B., B.Ch.
In 1899 he was elected a Sheppard Medical Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford and held the Fellowship until his death.
At Oxford he was a lecturer in physiological chemistry under Francis Gotch until 1913 and under C. S. Sherrington during the academic year 1913–1914.
March 26, 1947 Pembroke College, Oxford on the occasion of Ramsden's death, having been inspired by an obituary by R.B.