General The Baron Ramsbotham, GCB, CBE died 13 December, 2022, aged 88.
Lord Ramsbotham was a British Army officer, who later served as HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. He was awarded a life peerage in 2005, and later sat on the crossbenches of the House of Lords.
David John Ramsbotham was born 6 November, 1934, son of the Rt Rev John Alexander Ramsbotham (1906-1989), Bishop of Wakefield, and his wife the former Eirian Morgan (1903-88); and married in 1958, Susan Caroline Dickinson (who died 2021), scion of that landed gentry family, daughter of Robert Joicey Dickinson (1901-1981), and his wife the former Alice Penelope Barnett (1907-85), by whom he had two sons, Richard and James. The elder son, Richard, was married to Emma Colman, a Bowes Lyon descendant and cousin of the King.
He served as Adjutant-general of the army who later became an uncompromising and outspoken chief inspector of prisons. He was appointed KCB in 1987, and advanced to GCB in 1993.
After leaving the army, in addition to his work as Inspector of Prisons, he became chairman of the Hillingdon Hospital Trust. He was made an honorary Doctor of Civil Law by seven universities, and ennobled with a peerage for life in 2005 as Baron Ramsbotham, of Kensington, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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