Charles Ransford

Charles Ransford, M.D., was a traditionally educated British physician and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, who later became the private physician of the Duke of Northumberland and an early advocate of homoeopathic medicine.

Early life Ransford was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, in about 1808.

Fellow in Edinburgh Ransford began his medical education at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He fulfilled this position for the next 15 years. In 1839 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.

Private practice In 1848, Dr. Ransford resigned from his position in Edinburgh and entered into a general practice partnership in Alnwick, Northumberland, England.

Dr. Ransford eventually became the physician of the Duke of Northumberland, a prominent proponent of homoeopathy.

Dr. Ransford later moved his practice to York, where he remained for ten years, after that removing to Sydenham where he practiced into the 1880s. Ransford's wife was a native of Glasgow and a member of the Smalls of Dirnanean. She was the granddaughter of Charles Spalding, an Edinburgh confectioner and an improver of the diving bell who drowned in Dublin Bay in 1783 while diving in a bell of his own design.

Dr. Ransford's oldest daughter was Episcopalian Deaconess, Charlotte Spalding Ransford.

A brother-in-law of Dr. Ransford, and a fellow physician, was Dr. James Inglis.

Charles Ransford died on 11 July 1886 at The Hospital of St. Cross in Winchester, Hampshire, England.