James Allen Ransome

[2] After leaving school, he became apprenticed to his grandfather, father, and uncle, who were then carrying on business in Ipswich as Ransome and Sons.

In 1839 he moved permanently to Ipswich to reside as one of the leading partners of a firm now known as Ransomes and Sims.

]as "one of the leaders in a movement which, by bringing the science of the engineer to bear on the manufacture of implements for tilling the ground, has wrought, during the present century, an almost complete revolution in the practice of agriculture.

On 4 September 1828 he married Catherine, daughter of James Neave of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, with whom he had two sons, Robert James and Allen Ransome, and three daughters, one of whom married J. R. Jefferies, an active member of the firm.

This article incorporates public domain material from: Lee, Sidney, ed.