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2 unusual facts about Ransome


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Ransome Judson Williams (1872-1970), American politician and 102nd Governor of South Carolina

Ransome Gillett Holdridge (1836-1899), an early San Francisco school painter


Coots in the North

Coots in the North is the name given by Arthur Ransome's biographer, Hugh Brogan to an incomplete Swallows and Amazons novel found in Ransome's papers.

Geoffrey Bennett

Over the next two decades he produced about twenty such novels for both adults and children and also wrote a number of radio plays for the BBC, including several serials for Children's Hour which featured the adventures of two Midshipmen, "Tiger" Ransome and "Snort" Kenton.

Kingsand

Other notable residents have included Tabitha Ransome (Arthur Ransome's daughter) and also Ann Davison who was to become the first woman to sail the Atlantic single handed in 1953 and departing from Mashfords boatyard.

Nancy Blackett

Nancy Blackett – Ransome's sailing cutter named after his favourite character

Prince Alemayehu

He moved to Rugby School with Jex-Blake in 1875, where one of his tutors was Cyril Ransome (the future father of Arthur Ransome).

Prunella Ransome

Ransome retired as a career actress following her participation in the 1984 television series Sorrell and Son, though she made occasional television guest appearances in the 1990s.

PS Decoy

Decoy is powered by a 1905 Ransome Sims and Jefferies twin cylinder steam engine, which was salvaged and restored from Bunnings engineering workshops in Manjimup.

Swallows and Amazons

Roger Altounyan - real-life scientist; Ransome named characters in the story after Altounyan and his sisters.

The Arthur Ransome Society

The Arthur Ransome Society, also known by its acronym Tars, and whose members refer to themselves as Tars, is a society whose goals are to "celebrate the life, promote the works, and diffuse the ideas of Arthur Ransome".


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