James Ramsden was the last person to hold which political office in the UK, which was abolished in 1964 under Alec Douglas Hume's premiership?
"James Ramsden (politician) James Edward Ramsden (born 1 November 1923) is a British Conservative politician. He was the last person to hold the office of Secretary of State for War. Ramsden born in Liverpool in 1923, the son of Captain Edward Ramsden and his wife Geraldine. His father was a brother of George Taylor Ramsden, a Coalition Unionist MP for Elland, while his mother was a sister of brothers Sir Frank O'Brien Wilson (a Royal Navy officer and early settler of Kenya) and Sir Murrough John Wilson (a Conservative MP for Richmond, Yorkshire). During the Second World War, he served"
"Alec Douglas-Home Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964. He is notable for being the most recent Prime Minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, before renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership. His reputation, however, rests more on his two spells as Britain's foreign secretary than on his brief"
"charter, granted in 1940. He was described in 1927 as a ""whole-hearted and keen Imperialist"". Lord Ramsden married Margaret Enid, daughter of Frank Eugene Withey and widow of Major George Wells Farwell, in 1919. He died in August 1955, aged 72, after which the baronetcy and barony became extinct. Eugene Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden OBE (2 February 1883 – 9 August 1955), known as Sir Eugene Ramsden, Bt between 1938 and 1945, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Ramsden was the son of James Ramsden, of The Wheatleys in"
"The London Borough of Bromley wards of Biggin Hill, Bromley Common and Keston, Darwin, Hayes, Martins Hill and Town, West Wickham North, and West Wickham South. Ravensbourne (UK Parliament constituency) Ravensbourne was a borough constituency in the London Borough of Bromley in south London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first-past-the-post system. It existed from the February 1974 general election until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. This was a safe Conservative seat held by Sir John Hunt for the entire period of its"
"John Ramsden (historian) John Ramsden (12 November 1947 – 16 October 2009) was Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London until his retirement in 2008, and was an authority on the history of the Conservative Party. Ramsden was born in Sheffield, the son of Cyril (who worked for the National Coal Board) and Mary Ramsden. He attended King Edward VII School from 1959–66 followed by Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first in modern history. He moved to Nuffield College, Oxford to pursue doctoral research on ""the organisation of the Conservative Party in Britain 1910–30"","
"Ravensbourne (UK Parliament constituency) Ravensbourne was a borough constituency in the London Borough of Bromley in south London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first-past-the-post system. It existed from the February 1974 general election until it was abolished for the 1997 general election. This was a safe Conservative seat held by Sir John Hunt for the entire period of its existence. 1974-1983: The London Borough of Bromley wards of Bromley Common, Keston and Hayes, Martins Hill and Town, West Wickham North, and West Wickham South. 1983-1997:"
"John William Ramsden Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (14 Sep 1831 – 15 April 1914) was a British Liberal Party politician. Ramsden was born on 14 September 1831 to John Charles Ramsden and his wife Isabella Dundas. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hythe in 1857 and served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858. He resigned through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 9 February 1859. He also sat as MP for Taunton from 1853 to 1857, for the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1859 to 1865, for Monmouth"
"1965 Electoral district of Hampden Hampden was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1904 until its abolition in 1976. Most of the territory located in the old division of Hampden was transferred into the re-created electorate of Ripon. Hampden's most notable member was the longest serving Premier of Victoria Sir Henry Bolte. The seat was a marginally conservative seat, having never been won by the non-conservative parties for more than one term. = ""Liberal and Country Party"" was the name of the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1949"
"Plaistow and Sundridge, had a Communist Councillor in the 1940s. Prime Minister (1957-1963) Harold Macmillan was the MP for Bromley from 1945 until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt. Hunt, on the left of the Conservative party, held the seat (renamed Ravensbourne in 1974) until 1997. The Chislehurst seat had a Labour Party MP from 1966 until 1970. A by-election was held on 29 June 2006, upon the death of the previous MP Eric Forth the month before, which returned London Assembly member Bob Neill as the new Conservative MP with an electoral majority of"
"Dave Ramsden Sir David Edward John Ramsden CBE (born 9 February 1964) is a senior British civil servant, and the former Chief Economic Adviser to HM Treasury. He is the Head of the Government Economic Service, having previously served as Joint Head of the Service with Vicky Pryce, formerly Chief Economic Adviser and Director-General at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Ramsden joined the Civil Service in 1986 before joining the Treasury in 1988. He has worked on a wide range of economic policy issues, including monetary policy, fiscal and tax policy, the public finances, the business sector and"
"the Profumo affair, a sexual scandal involving a defence minister in 1963, and at the time of Lord Home's appointment as Prime Minister seemed headed for heavy electoral defeat. Home's premiership was the second briefest of the twentieth century, lasting two days short of a year. Among the legislation passed under his government was the abolition of resale price maintenance, bringing costs down for the consumer against the interests of producers of food and other commodities. After narrow defeat in the general election of 1964, Douglas-Home resigned the leadership of his party in July 1965, having instituted a new and"
"of Halesowen. During this period no ministerial roles happened to have been awarded to any of the members. Prominent members in social history include: Wilfred Wellock, who wrote 13 publications, and was an early Gandhian as well as a promoter of increased localism. At the end of this period, Lord Moyle (as he became) went on to serve Oldbury and Halesowen until 1964 and in the ballot for Private member's bills achieved three to legislate in respect of: The constituency was abolished in 1950, with the Stourbridge West and Stourbridge East wards being incorporated into the Dudley constituency. An Eastern"
"Home, who renounced his peerage and as Alec Douglas-Home campaigned on Britain's nuclear deterrent in the 1964 election. While the issue was of low importance in the minds of the electorate, it was an issue on which Douglas-Home felt passionately, and on which the majority of voters supported his position. The Labour Party election manifesto called for the Nassau Agreement to be renegotiated, and on 5 October 1964, the leader of the Labour Party, Harold Wilson, criticised the independent British deterrent as neither independent, nor British, nor a deterrent. Douglas-Home narrowly lost the election to Wilson. In office, Labour retained"
"famous MP for Bromley, serving from the 1945 by-election until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt. Hunt, on the left of the Conservative party, held the seat (renamed Ravensbourne in 1974) until 1997. Bromley (UK Parliament constituency) Bromley is a former borough constituency in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The most famous MP for the constituency was Harold Macmillan, who served as Prime Minister (1957–1963). 1918-1945: The Borough of Bromley, and the Urban"
"neighbouring county constituency of Cannock. There were widespread local government changes in the Black Country in 1966, and all the local government districts making up the constituency were abolished and their areas absorbed into neighbouring county boroughs. This was reflected when the Wednesbury constituency was abolished in 1974, with its area being divided between the seats of Walsall North (Willenhall), Walsall South (Darlaston), and West Bromwich West (Wednesbury). The local people were inclined to vote Liberal so there were several contenders for being the Liberal candidate selected, of whom Alexander Brogden was the man nominated. He was by that time,"
"Eugene Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, 1st Baron Ramsden OBE (2 February 1883 – 9 August 1955), known as Sir Eugene Ramsden, Bt between 1938 and 1945, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Ramsden was the son of James Ramsden, of The Wheatleys in Gomersal, Yorkshire, and Mary Jane (née Hargreaves). He was head of James Ramsden Ltd. He also fought in the First World War and was appointed an OBE in 1919. Ramsden stood unsuccessfully for the Spen Valley constituency in West Yorkshire at the 1923 general election, held by the senior"
"democratic elections in April 1994. After the dissolution of the AAM he became the first Chairperson of its successor organisation, . Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (born 3 January 1932) is a British Labour politician, who was also Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa. Educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen and in South Africa where he lived 1947–1954, he worked as a draughtsman. Hughes first stood for Parliament in 1959 at North Angus and Mearns, where"
"parliamentary offices, Hume was a member of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, the Thames Conservancy Board and the London and Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority. In 1932 he married Dorothy Hunt Blundell. In 1938 he indicated his intention to stand down at the next election. In the event, elections were postponed due to the Second World War, and he remained in the Commons until 1945. Sir George Hume died at his home at Blackheath, London in September 1946, aged 80. George Hume (politician) Sir George Hopwood Hume (24 May 1866 – 13 September 1946) was a British"
"its abolition in 1983. It was replaced by the Vale of Glamorgan constituency which Sir Herbert Raymond Gower (Conservative) won at the 1983 general election. He remained as MP until his death in 1989. At the subsequent by-election the seat was won by John Smith (Labour). At the 1992 general election Walter Sweeney (Conservative) won it by only 19 votes. That made it the most marginal seat in Britain. John Smith won it back at the 1997 general election. In the 2010 General election there was a 6.1% swing from labour to conservative. This has now handed the seat to"
"Sir John Ramsden, 3rd Baronet Sir John Ramsden, 3rd Baronet (1699–1769) of Byram and Longley Hall, Yorkshire, was a British landowner and Independent Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1754. Ramsden was baptised on 21 March 1699, the eldest son of Sir William Ramsden, 2nd Baronet, of Byram and Longley Hall and his wife Elizabeth Lowther, daughter of John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale. He was admitted at Clare College, Cambridge in. 1718. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy on 27 June 1736. At the 1727 general election, Ramsden was returned as Member of"
"come out of retirement and return to the Commons, offering himself to the Kensington and Chelsea constituency Labour Party to challenge Malcolm Rifkind. Ultimately, however, no election was held that year, and the Kensington and Chelsea seat was abolished for the 2010 election. Kensington and Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency) Kensington and Chelsea was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom 1997–2010. It was one of the safest Conservative seats in the United Kingdom, and since its creation in 1997 became a prestigious seat, with MP Alan Clark, the former Defence Secretary Michael"
"Parliament for Hemel Hempstead (after defeating Margaret Thatcher for the Conservative nomination) from 1959 to 1974, when, following boundary changes, he narrowly lost the seat in the October election of that year to Labour's Robin Corbett. In government he was acknowledged for his expertise not only on defence but in the arcane but key subject of pensions. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for War he had a ringside seat as the Profumo affair unfolded, refraining from publishing his inside account until after the death of Jack Profumo in March 2006. When the Conservatives were in opposition Allason was front"
"and Otley constituency was abolished, re-creating the Pudsey constituency and moving Otley into the Ripon constituency. The Leeds North West boundary was revised prior to the 1983 general election, bringing in Otley and the nearby villages of Bramhope, Pool-in-Wharfedale and Arthington from the abolition of the Ripon constituency. The constituency was held for the Conservative Party by Donald Kaberry from its creation in 1950 until his retirement in 1983, and then by Keith Hampson (1983–1997), who had previously been MP for Ripon. It was taken for Labour in the 1997 general election by Harold Best, who was re-elected in the"
"Electoral district of Hampden Hampden was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1904 until its abolition in 1976. Most of the territory located in the old division of Hampden was transferred into the re-created electorate of Ripon. Hampden's most notable member was the longest serving Premier of Victoria Sir Henry Bolte. The seat was a marginally conservative seat, having never been won by the non-conservative parties for more than one term. = ""Liberal and Country Party"" was the name of the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1949 until"
"general election, and refused to be reinstated as alderman. Ramsden probably died in 1665 as his name was not on the commission of the peace in 1666. Ramsden married Joyce Wynn, daughter of Edmund Wynn, draper of London and Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire. He had two sons and a daughter. John Ramsden (died 1665) John Ramsden (c1612 - 1665) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. Ramsden was the son of John Ramsden, merchant of Hull, and his wife Margaret Barnard, daughter of William Barnard, also a merchant of Hull. His father was"
"of Wolverhampton were part of the Wolverhampton South West seat. Seisdon became part of the South West Staffordshire division. Most of Amblecote had been included in the Worcestershire Municipal Borough of Stourbridge, so it became part of the Halesowen and Stourbridge parliamentary constituency. Brierley Hill (UK Parliament constituency) Brierley Hill parliamentary constituency was located in the West Midlands of England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the"
"Keith Hampson Keith Hampson (born 14 August 1943) is a former Conservative party politician in the United Kingdom. Hampson was educated at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, where he was head boy, the University of Bristol and Harvard and was a university lecturer by profession. He was a personal assistant to Edward Heath in the 1966 general election. He was elected the MP for Ripon in February 1974, a seat that the Liberals had gained in a by-election the previous year. The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, and Hampson was then elected for Leeds North"
"under Robert Blake and David Butler. He joined Queen Mary College, London, as a lecturer in history in January 1972. John Ramsden (historian) John Ramsden (12 November 1947 – 16 October 2009) was Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London until his retirement in 2008, and was an authority on the history of the Conservative Party. Ramsden was born in Sheffield, the son of Cyril (who worked for the National Coal Board) and Mary Ramsden. He attended King Edward VII School from 1959–66 followed by Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first in modern history."
"intelligentsia). The Labour incumbent in Hampstead and Highgate at the time of abolition, Glenda Jackson, retained the new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn in 2010 with a majority of just 42. Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency) Hampstead & Highgate was a parliamentary constituency covering the northern half of the London Borough of Camden which includes the village of Hampstead and part of that of Highgate. It was abolished in the 2010 general election; with the majority forming the new constituency of Hampstead and Kilburn; and part to the Holborn and St Pancras seat. 1983-1997: The London Borough of Camden"
"in September 2016 ahead of the next general election, the seat will take from the Ludlow constituency the wards of Chirbury and Worthen. The constituency would also simply be titled Shrewsbury, dropping the ""and Atcham"" in reflection of the abolition in 2009 of the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council. On 10 December 2001, following his demand for a parliamentary debate before military intervention in Afghanistan, the incumbent Labour member, Paul Marsden, left the government's benches and remained with the Liberal Democrats until 5 April 2005 when he sought to show strong solidarity with Labour stop the war MPs by returning"
"was a Liberal Democrat, after the Liberals' merger with the Social Democratic Party. Alton had first been elected to parliament at a by-election in March 1979 for Liverpool Edge Hill, and held that seat until its abolition in 1983. The constituency was abolished for the 1997 general election; Alton retired from the Commons and was appointed a cross-bench member of the House of Lords, and the Mossley Hill area itself was transferred to the redrawn constituency of Liverpool Riverside, a safe Labour seat. Liverpool Mossley Hill (UK Parliament constituency) Liverpool Mossley Hill was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mossley"
"he would stand down at the next general election. Jim Paice Sir James Edward Thornton Paice, DL (born 24 April 1949) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South East Cambridgeshire between 1987 and 2015, when he stood down from parliament. He was the Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2010–2012 until being removed in the 2012 government reshuffle. Born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, Paice went to the independent Framlingham College. At the Writtle Agricultural College, he received a National Diploma in Agriculture in"
"stepped down at the 1935 election. Hammersley returned to the House of Commons three years later as MP Willesden East, after winning a by-election in July 1938. He represented Willesden until his defeat at the 1945 election. Founding Chairman of the Anglo-Israel Association 1948.[3] 3. ""A Little Bit Off The Top"" by Barbara Jill Poloniecka. 1998 The Book Guild Ltd, Lewes, Sussex. Samuel Hammersley Samuel Schofield Hammersley (22 December 1892 – 28 March 1965) was an industrialist and Conservative Party politician in UK. Educated Hulme Grammar School, Oldham, and Kings College, Cambridge. In 1915 during World War I he joined"