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He was the son of Benjamin Woolhouse Ramsden (c.1851-c1898) and Norah (nee Ibbotson) whose family were ivory cutters and may also have dealt in ivory. Omar Ramsden was apprenticed as a silversmith in 1887 and studied at Sheffield School of Art from 1890, winning a four-year scholarship in 1894. After completing his training about 1897, Ramsden travelled abroad for a year with a fellow student at Sheffield, Alwyn Ellison Carr (1872-1940). On their return in 1898, they then set up a business in London, registering their own maker's mark. Ramsden and Carr worked first from Albert Studios, Battersea and then from a studio (St. Dunstan's) in Chelsea and a workshop in Fulham. From about 1914 Ramsden began to work independently and in 1919 the partnership with Carr was formally dissolved. 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