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About John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness
John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness, known as Sir John Ramsay between 1600 and 1606, and as the Viscount of Haddington between 1606 and 1621, was an important Scottish aristocrat of the Jacobean era, best known in history as the first favourite of James I when he became king of England as well as Scotland in 1603.
Everything about John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness →- Position held
- Member of the Parliament of Scotland, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey
- Born
- 1580
- Died
- January 1626