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E003029 - Ransome, Joseph Atkinson (1805 - 1867)
Title:
Ransome, Joseph Atkinson (1805 - 1867)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003029
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-10-17
Description:
Obituary for Ransome, Joseph Atkinson (1805 - 1867), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Ransome, Joseph Atkinson
Date of Birth:
1805
Date of Death:
6 August 1867
Place of Death:
Flixton, Suffolk
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS October 5th 1827

FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844

LSA 1827

LRCS Edin 1827
Details:
The son of John Atkinson Ransome (qv); studied at the Manchester Medical School in 1824. Thence he went to Guy's Hospital and the Universities of Edinburgh and Paris. He practised at 1 St Peter's Square, Manchester. Serving as Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary from 1843-1866, he delivered the Introductory Address at the Royal Manchester School of Medicine and Surgery on October 1st, 1843 (*see Prov Med Jour*, 1842-8, v, 96), in which he described the origin of the school and referred to the work of his father and of Kinder Wood, the obstetrician, both recently dead. At one time he was Surgeon to the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary and Union Hospital, and acted as Vice-President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, also of the Medical Society. He died at Flixton on August 6th, 1867. His son, Dr Arthur Ransome, FRS, lectured on pulmonary disease, hygiene and public health at Owens College until 1895.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003000-E003099
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