Richard Ramsden

Rev. Richard Ramsden (1761-1831) was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who became a frequent target of Benjamin Flower’s anger during the late 1790s and early 1800s as a result of several sermons preached in Cambridge, such as The Origins and Ends of Government (January 1800), Reflections on War and the Final Cessation of All Hostility (March 1800), and The Alliance betwen the Church and the State (November 1800), in which Ramsden followed Horsley’s advocacy of submission to the government and support of the war with France, with anyone opposed to such a position being nothing less than a “vile Jacobin.”