Editing Arthur Ransome (section)

==Early life==
Ransome was the son of Cyril Ransome (1851–1897) and his wife Edith Ransome (née Baker Boulton) <!-- Baker Boulton is the correct spelling of the surname used by her father, Edward (1812–1895). Please do not change it -->(1862–1944).<ref>Edwards, John H, ''Edward Baker Boulton: Australia's Forgotten Artist'', Norrong Press, Sydney, 2004 {{ISBN|0-9752129-0-7}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hyland|first1=Peter|title=A Brief Biography of Arthur Ransome |url=https://allthingsransome.net/literary/arbiography.html|publisher=All Things Ransome|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> Joyce married into the [[Lupton family#Hugh Lupton|Lupton family]], well-connected industrialists and politicians; she named one of her sons Arthur Ralph Ransome Lupton (1924–2009).

Ransome was born in [[Leeds]]; the house at 6 Ash Grove, in the [[Hyde Park, Leeds|Hyde Park]] area, has a [[blue plaque]] beside the door commemorating his birthplace.<ref>Chambers (2009) pp 11–12</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leeds/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8388000/8388891.stm|title=Arthur Ransome – double agent?|date=1 December 2009|work=BBC Local: Leeds|publisher=BBC News|access-date=28 March 2010|location=Leeds, England}}</ref> Ransome's father was professor of history at [[Victoria University (United Kingdom)|Yorkshire College]] (now the [[University of Leeds]]). The family regularly holidayed at [[Nibthwaite]] in the Lake District, and he was carried up to the top of [[Coniston Old Man]] as an infant. His father's premature death in 1897 had a lasting effect on him. His mother did not want him to abandon his studies for writing, but was later supportive of his books. She urged him to publish ''[[The Picts and the Martyrs]]'' in 1943, although his second wife Evgenia hated it, and was often discouraging about his books while he was writing them.

Ransome was educated first in [[Windermere, Cumbria (town)|Windermere]] and then at [[Rugby School]] (where he lived in the same study room that had been used by [[Lewis Carroll]]) but did not entirely enjoy the experience, because of his poor eyesight, lack of athletic skill, and limited academic achievement. He studied chemistry at Yorkshire College, where his late father had worked.