William Harcourt Ranking FRCP (1814 – 4 June 1867) was an English physician, medical editor, and photographer.
[2] He visited Paris before he was appointed physician to the Bury and Suffolk General Hospital in 1840.
[1] He contributed to the study of scrofula by translating Jean Lugol's 1844 treatise Recherches et observations sur les causes des maladies scrofuleuses.
Ranking and Walsh's editorship was preceded by that of Robert Streeten and followed by that of John Rose Cormack.
He gave an account of his chosen format, the waxed paper process, and showed ‘excellent views’.