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RANKEN, RANKIN, RANKINE & RANKING ARMS

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

Arms
Armiger
Blazon
Source
RANKINE OF ORCHARDHEAD

Gules three boars' heads erased and issuing out of the dexter and sinister base a lance and Lochaber axe erected in pale Argent. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7
Alexander RANKINE
Perth

Argent three boars' heads couped between as many battleaxes Gules in the fess point a quatrefoil Vert. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7
Henry RANKINE
Merchant, Rochelle

Argent a Lochaber axe erected in pale between three boars' heads couped Gules. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1679 Stacie
Robert RANKEN
Keeper of the Lyon Records

Gules three boars' heads erased Or and langued Argent (for Ranken) on a chief of the third a chevron Sable between three martlets of the first (for Proctor). Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1795
RANKINE OF DUDHOPE

Or a Lochaber axe fessways Sable between two boars' heads couped Gules. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1872
John RANKIN

Or three boars' heads couped Sable armed and langues Gules two and one disposed alternately with three battles axes of the second a buckle of the third in the fess point. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
24th February 1910 20/58
Rt Hon Sir George Claus RANKIN

Gules a Lochaber axe in pale between three boars' heads couped Argent armed Or langued Azure on a chief Ermine a pelican in her piety between two lotus flowers of the field. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
26th March 1935 31/43

Recorded Elsewhere

Arms
Armiger
Blazon
Source
1) Sir James RANKIN Bt MP
b.1842 d.1915

2) Sir Ian Niall RANKIN Bt
b.1932

Or a cinquefoil Gules between in chief a battleaxe erect between two boars' heads couped and in base a boar's head couped between two battleaxes erect Sable. 1a) Grantees of Arms
1884 Vol LXII fol 297
1b) Blazon: Armorial Families 1902

2) Burke's Peerage 107th Edition

James Lancaster RANKING
Surgeon-General
b.1818 d.1897
Party per pale indented Gules and Argent three boars' heads erased between two flaunches that on the dexter charged with a tilting spear and that on the sinister with a pole-axe all counter changed. a) Grantees of Arms
1891 Vol LXVI fol 142
b) Blazon: Armorial Families 1902