Sir John Ramsden, 9th Baronet


Sir John Charles Josslyn Ramsden, 9th Baronet is a retired British diplomat and one of the Ramsden baronets.

Early life

Ramsden was born on 19 August 1950. He was a son of Anne Wickham and Sir Caryl Oliver Imbert Ramsden, 8th Baronet, was also a diplomat and was appointed Consul-General for Lower Saxony and was appointed CMG and CVO.
His paternal grandparents were Lt.-Col. Josslyn Vere Ramsden and Olive Clotilde Bouhier Imbert-Terry. His maternal grandparents were Lt.-Col. Sir Charles George Wickham and Phyllis Amy Rose.
Ramsden was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1987, he succeeded as the 9th Baronet Ramsden of Byram.

Career

After two years in merchant banking with Dawnay Day, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975.
Early in his career he served in Vienna with the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions negotiations and then became Head of Chancery and Consul in Hanoi in 1980. After some years in London he was Counsellor in East Berlin and subsequently Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin ; Head of the Information Department at the Foreign Office ; Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations in Geneva ; Head of the Central and North West Europe Department ; and finally Ambassador to Croatia.
In August 2005 his name appeared on a list of alleged MI6 Officers leaked to the website Cryptome.

Personal life

On 14 December 1985, married Jennifer Jane Bevan, daughter of Rear-Admiral Christopher Martin Bevan and the former Patricia Bedford. Together, they are the parents of: