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128:(son-in-law and daughter), Mrs C.H.M. Shaw (daughter), Mr James Rankin (brother), Lieutenant R. Rankin and Mr John Cherry (grandsons), Mr and the Hon. Mrs George Drayson and Mrs K. Bull (brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law), Mrs Jefferson Hogg (sister-in-law), Mr and Mrs William Rathbone (nephew and niece), Mr and Mrs W. Rathbone, (great-nephew and great-niece. 131:
After his death, he paid £506,159 gross death duty, and bequeathed £250 each to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Liverpool Conservative Association, and the Rankin Boys Club. His brother, James Stuart Rankin (1880–1960), Conservative MP for East Toxteth,
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He had two daughters by his first wife, Helen Mary (daughter of James Edmund Baker of Tehran, Iran), who died in 1932. In 1940 he married Rachel Dufrin (daughter of Charles Dufrin Drayson of Melton Court).
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Per fess Or and Azure in chief a battle axe erect between two boars' heads couped Sable armed Argent and in base on waves of the sea in front of a sun rising a ship in full sail Proper.
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A history of our firm: being some account of the firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and its offshoots and connections, 1804–1920
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A history of our firm: being some account of the firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and its offshoots and connections, 1804–1920
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A history of our firm: being some account of the firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and its offshoots and connections, 1804–1920
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In front of a cubit arm in armour holding in the hand a battle axe Proper three roses Gules barbed and seeded also Proper.
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in 1877, Robert Rankin was the elder son of John Rankin (b. 14 Feb 1845 Greenbank, New Brunswick, nephew of
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His step-father, John Joseph Fahie, left him a fortune in 1934. In 1937, the
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liverpool constituencies
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on Friday 14 October 1960 included Lady Rankin, Air Vice-Marshal and Mrs
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was created, becoming the 1st Baronet of Broughton Towers at
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Mrs. Robert Rankin and her daughters at Broughton Towers
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politician, who was elected a Member of Parliament for
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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at Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick
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1916–1924) died nine days later on 20 October 1960.
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Index

Robert Rankin (disambiguation)
Conservative
Liverpool Kirkdale
Pollok, Gilmour and Company
Royal Commonwealth Society
Air League
High Sheriff of Lancashire
Liverpool
Robert Rankin
Clare College, Cambridge
Royal Fusiliers
Royal Army Service Corps
Rankin Baronetcy
Broughton-in-Furness
Golders Green Crematorium
John Grandy





Charles Roger Dod
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"No. 38239"
The London Gazette
A history of our firm: being some account of the firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and its offshoots and connections, 1804–1920
page 143
England and Wales Census, 1881 for John Rankin
page 325
A history of our firm: being some account of the firm of Pollok, Gilmour and Co. and its offshoots and connections, 1804–1920

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