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Ramsey, Lettice (née Baker), 1898 -1985, photographer
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Dates of existence
1898-1985
History
Lettice Ramsey was the daughter of Francis Baker (née Davies-Colley). Francis was the sister of Eleanor (surgeon) and Margaret (suffragette) Davis-Colley and cousin of Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner.
Lettice was a graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, and she married Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, Frank Ramsey (son of A.S. Ramsey, President of Magdalene College) in 1926. Frank died in 1930 and Lettice looked for a new way to support herself and her two young daughters. In 1932 she set up in the photographic business with Helen Muspratt, a Dorset photographer who had trained at Regent Street Polytechnic in London. Lettice had the Cambridge contacts to get the firm work while Helen had the photographic skills and experience.