Edwin Ransom
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| Born | 1841 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1927 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Kempstone, Bedford The Oval, Bedford [1883] 24 Ashburnham Road, Bedford [1885] | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
business | ||||||||||
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proposed 1868.02.04
death reported in Report of the Council for 1927
Notes From Elsewhere
Ransom, Edwin (1841-1927) Businessman, Kempston [Miller, Mayor]
National archives: 1862-1872: corresp; topics incl family and business matters, his European travels and the acquisition of the Bedfordshire Times; 1855-1871: diaries, incl travel in France and Germany
mill owner. Born Hitchin; died Bedford.
Owner of The Bedfordshire Times and Independent. Quaker. Travelled widely and supported Palestine Exploration Fund. Mayor of Bedford 1885. There is a Edwin Ransome, a retired miller, listed in the 1901 Census as living in Bedford. However, this site notes a miller, Edwin Ransom, at Kempston Mill at the right time. When earlier volumes of the JAI give Ransom’s address as Kempstone.