George Claus Rankin

Sir George Claus Rankin PC (12 August 1877 – 8 April 1946) was a British judge in India.

Rankin was born in Lamington, Lanarkshire, the son of Rev. Robert Rankin. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A., and where his essay on “Democracy in literature” was awarded the Edinburgh University Club of London Triennial Prize in 1898,[1] and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn and called to the bar in 1904. He served in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery.[2]

He went to India in 1918[3] and served first as a puisne judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and then as Chief Justice, from 1926 to 1934.[4] While in India, in 1919 he was given a temporary commission as Major in the Calcutta University Infantry of the Indian Defence Force.[5]

Upon his return to Britain, he was sworn to the Privy Council,[6] entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,[7] at that time the court of last resort for India and other parts of the British Empire.

Arms
Coat of arms of George Claus Rankin
Motto
Super Flumina [8]

Publications
  • George Claus Rankin, Background to Indian Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1946).

References
  1. Rankin, George C. (1898). "Democracy in literature". hdl:1842/27236. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900
  3. George Claus Rankin, Background to Indian Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1946), p. vii.
  4. "Former Chief Justices of the High Court of Calcutta" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  5. London Gazette, 1 June 1920, p. 609.
  6. London Gazette, 29 March 1935, p. 2121.
  7. London Gazette, 25 October 1935, p. 6697.
  8. Baz Manning (13 July 2009). "Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Ec27 Rankin, G". Flickr. Retrieved 18 December 2020.


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