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'''Edwin Ransom'''
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=== House Notes ===
proposed 1868.02.04 [FRCS mentioned here, not at election - check other lists if poss]<br />death reported in Report of the Council for 1927<br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Ransom, Edwin (1841-1927) Businessman, Kempston [Miller, Mayor]<br />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<br /><br />mill owner. Born Hitchin; died Bedford.<br />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.<br />
