George Claus Rankin

Sir George Clause 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 and Trinity College, Cambridge. He as admitted at Lincoln's Inn and called to the bar in 1904. He served in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery.[1]

He went to India in 1918[2] and served first as a puisne judge of the High Court of Calcutta, and then as Chief Justice, from 1926 to 1934.[3] While in India, in 1919 he was given a temporary commission as Major in the Calcutta University Infantry of the Indian Defence Force.[4]

Upon his return to Britain, he was sworn to the Privy Council,[5] entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,[6] at that time the court of last resort for India and other parts of the British Empire.

Publications

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

References

  1. ↑ Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900
  2. ↑ George Claus Rankin, Background to Indian Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1946), p. vii.
  3. ↑ Former Chief Justices of the High Court of Calcutta.
  4. ↑ London Gazette, 1 June 1920, p. 609.
  5. ↑ London Gazette, 29 March 1935, p. 2121.
  6. ↑ London Gazette, 25 October 1935, p. 6697.
Legal offices
Preceded by
Sir Lancelot Sanderson		 Chief Justice of Bengal
1926–1934		 Succeeded by
Sir Harold Derbyshire



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