RASHBON, ---; b.; adm.; left 1656 (School List 1656, first quarter only).
RAPHSON, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS 1701; left 1704.
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RANT, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Rant, Mendham, Suffolk, and Mary --- (IGI) [or Rebecca Bateman ?]; bapt. Redenhall, Norfolk 23 Sep 1731 (IGI); adm. (aged 15) Feb 1746/7 (Preston's); adm. Middle Temple 7 Feb 1748/9; d. 1805.
RANT, ROGER, son of Roger Rant, North Walsham, Norfolk; b. ; at school under Wilson (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll. , i, 223); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 6 Oct 1613, aged 15, matr. Easter 1615; adm. Gray’s Inn 25 Oct 1615; of Swaffham Prior, Cambs. ; m. 17 Jan 1618 (IGI) Eleanor, dau. of John Jermy; d. 26 May 1654.
RANSOM, ROBERT JOHN, only son of Robert Ransom, Hastings, Sussex; b. 27 Aug 1857; adm. 31 Jul 1871; QS 1872; left Dec 1874; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 11 Nov 1878; BA 1883; Wycliffe Hall 1883; ordained deacon 1883 (Truro), priest 1884 (Winchester); Curate, St. Stephen’s in Brannell, Cornwall 1883-4, St. Michael’s, Bournemouth, Hampshire 1884-5, Stoke-next-Guildford, Surrey 1885-90; m. 9 Feb 1886 Edith, dau. of Robert Chatfield Hankinson, North Stoneham, Hampshire, banker; d. 30 Oct 1902.
Rankin, William Sewell de Guibe, son of Richard Henry Rankin, attorney, of Newark, NJ, USA; b. 4 May 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (H, non-res. KS); left July 1924; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1924, Boden Sanskrit schol. 1927, BA 1928, MA 1952; education officer Nigerian Civil Service 1928-51, retd Nov. 1951; worked for UNESCO Liberia 1952, Ethiopia 1956-7; taught in Scotland 1958-67; m. 15 Sept. 1938 Elizabeth Louisa, d. of Edward Hope Waterfield (qv); d. Jan. 1987.
RANKEN, JOHN WILLIAM, only son of Charles Ranken, Gray’s Inn, London; b. 26 Apr 1815; adm. 16 Jan 1828 (Stikeman's); left Apr 1832; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Oct 1832; d. 2 Sep 1835.
RANKEN, CHARLES, second son of Capt. Charles Ranken, EICS Bengal, subsequently of Richmond Lodge, near Holywood, Belfast, Ireland, and Mary, dau. of Rev. Moses Grant, Rector of Nolton, Pembrokeshire, and Prebendary of St. Davids; b. 14 Mar 1797; adm. Christmas 1809; KS (aged 13) 1810; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1814, matr. 23 May 1814, Westminster Student; BA 1817; MA 1820 (incorp. Cambridge 1860); ordained deacon 1820, priest 1821 (both Oxford); Curate, Brislington, Somerset, Lecturer there 1826; Chaplain, Hickey’s Almshouses, Richmond, Surrey 1867-77; m. Isabella, dau. of Edward Long Fox MD, Brislington House, Somerset; d. 31 Oct 1883.