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Authorised form of nameRansome; Arthur (1834 - 1922)
Dates1834 - 1922
NationalityBritish
Place of birthManchester, England
Date of birth11 February 1834
Place of deathSunnyhurst', Porchester Road, Bournemouth, Dorset
Date of death25/07/1922
OccupationPhysician; Surgeon
ActivityEducation:
Manchester; Trinity College, Dublin; Caius College, Cambridge. MA, MB (1858), MD (1869)
Career:
Practised as a Physician in Manchester; Lecturer in Hygiene, Owen's College, Manchester; invented the Stethometer; wrote on tuberculosis; Examiner in Sanitary science; University of Cambridge.
Memberships:
MRCS (1855); LSA (1856); MRCP; FRCP (1869); Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1884
RelationshipsSon of Joseph Atkinson Ransome, surgeon; married (1862); 3 sons, 4 daughters
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA6672
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1884/16Ransome, Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/003743Ransome, Arthurnd
IM/Maull/003744Ransome, Arthurnd
NLB/18/539Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Ransome28 March 1899
NLB/9/371Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society7 May 1894
NLB/9/407Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Arthur Ransome, Devisdale, Bowdon, Cheshire16 May 1894
NLB/14/557Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr George Downing Liveing, 52 Queen Anne Street, W.[c March 1897]
NLB/14/486Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Arthur Ransome, [Fellow of the Royal Society]18 March 1897
NLB/10/252Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 November 1894
NLB/18/415Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr A Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1899
NLB/18/722Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr A Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1899
NLB/18/689Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society22 April 1899
NLB/18/694Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sunnyhurst, Dean Park, Bournemouth24 April 1899
NLB/28/848Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, 46 St Martin's Lane, W.C.6 June 1904
NLB/21/691Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Arthur Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society10 January 1901
NLB/38/108Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1908
NLB/35/541Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sunnyhurst, Dean Park, Bournemouth11 June 1907
NLB/37/736Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr Arthur Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society6 May 1908
NLB/37/853Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr A [Arthur] Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sunnyhurst, Dean Park, Bournemouth25 May 1908
RR/7/273Referee's report by John Marshall, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of the respiratory movements in man' by Arthur Ransome1873
RR/7/274Referee's report by Francis Sibson, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of the respiratory movements in man' by Arthur Ransome1873
RR/12/206Referee's report by Harry Marshall Ward, on a paper 'On the influence of certain natural agents on the viru­lence of the tubercle-bacillus' by Arthur Ransome and Sheridan Delépine5 May 1894
NLB/59/575Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Arthur] Ransome, FRS21 October 1920
NLB/21/778Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Arthur Ransome, Fellow of the Royal Society, Sunnyhurst, Dean Park, Bournemouth30 January 1901
RR/7/272Referee's report by John Marshall, on a paper 'On the mechanical conditions of the respiratory movements in man' by Arthur Ransome2 June 1873
AP/55/15Unpublished paper, 'On the bending of the ribs in forced breathing' by Arthur Ransome12 April 1873
AP/54/11Unpublished paper, 'On the mechanical conditions of the respiratory movements in man' by Arthur Ransome1872
PP/2/29Paper, 'Note on the discovery of bacilli in the condensed aqueous vapour of the breath of persons affected with phthisis' by [Arthur] Ransome1882
PP/17/3Paper, 'On certain conditions that modify the virulence of the bacillus of tubercle' by Arthur Ransome1890
PP/24/4Paper, 'On the influence of certain natural agents on the viru­lence of the tubercle-bacillus' by Sheridan Delépine and Arthur Ransome1894
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