John Rankine (moderator)

John Rankine (1816–1885) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1883.

He was born in Maybole in Ayrshire on 28 December 1816 the fourth child of John Rankine and Marion Sloane.

In 1883 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in succession to Very Rev William Milligan.

[3] He died on 30 April 1885 aged 88, and is buried in the churchyard at Sorn against the wall.

[5] Graham and Jane died in infancy,[6] Marion Elizabeth Rankine married Very Rev Archibald Scott, Moderator in 1896,[7] Margaret Romanes Rankine married Very Rev John Brown Moderator in 1916[8] and John, a legal author.