Ranald Hugh Montgomerie Boyle DSC (19 August 1921 – 17 September 1999) was a British diplomat.
[1] He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1941 and served in the Second World War, including in the Dieppe Raid during which he was wounded.
He then joined Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service and was a District Commissioner in Kenya Colony from 1956 to 1964.
From 1964 to 1969 he served in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service as political agent in Qatar, from where he went to the British embassy in Khartoum, resigning in 1970.
He married Norma Gray on 27 April 1957; together they had seven children.