14 Feb 1845 Greenbank, New Brunswick, nephew of Robert Rankin)[4][5] and his wife Helen Margaret (daughter of James Jack, married John 1 September 1875, died 1937).
[7] Those attending his funeral at Golders Green Crematorium on Friday 14 October 1960 included Lady Rankin, Air Vice-Marshal and Mrs John Grandy (son-in-law and daughter), Mrs C.H.M.
[8] After his death, he paid £506,159 gross death duty, and bequeathed £250 each to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Liverpool Conservative Association, and the Rankin Boys Club.
[9] His brother, James Stuart Rankin (1880–1960), Conservative MP for East Toxteth, 1916–1924) died nine days later on 20 October 1960.
[10] By his first wife Renée Helen Lilian Mary Baker (1884 in Teheran, Persia – 13 March 1932), the daughter of James Edmund Baker (the nephew of Thomas Oxley) and his wife Florence Sarah Hanson McKenzie, he had two daughters: