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.