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Arthur ransome7/6/2023 ![]() Joyce married into the Lupton family, well-connected industrialists and politicians she named one of her sons Arthur Ralph Ransome Lupton (1924–2009). Arthur was the eldest of four children: he had two sisters Cecily and Joyce, and a brother Geoffrey who was killed in the First World War in 1918. Ransome was the son of Cyril Ransome (1851–1897) and his wife Edith Ransome (née Baker Boulton) (1862–1944). His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service, while he was also suspected by MI5 of being a Soviet spy. ![]() ![]() He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. The entire series remains in print, and Swallows and Amazons is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. St Paul's Church, Rusland, Cumbria, EnglandĪrthur Michell Ransome CBE (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. ![]() Cheadle Royal Hospital, Greater Manchester, England ![]()
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