Arthur Ranken

The Very Rev Arthur Ranken (23 October 1806 – 24 September 1886) was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1880 to 1886.[1]

He was born at Tyrie, Aberdeenshire in 1806, and educated at Marischal College and the University of Aberdeen and ordained in 1829. After a curacy at Portsoy he was the incumbent at Mintlaw and then at Old Deer until his death, holding the appointment as Dean in addition for the last six years of his life.[2]

He died on 24 September 1886.[3]

Notes
  1. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" p517 Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
  2. "Ecclesiastical" Aberdeen Weekly Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland), Wednesday, 24 November 1880; Issue 8034
  3. Obituary The Times (London, England), Saturday, 25 Sep 1886; pg. 9; Issue 31874
gollark: Yes?
gollark: Intel added ISPs to some Tiger Lake mobile SoCs, but I don't know if anyone *used* that.
gollark: USB 2, even.
gollark: I don't know how frequent those are on average, but my server has never actually undergone any hardware failures in 3 years.
gollark: Not really? You probably want to clean out the dust in the fans and stuff occasionally, and sometimes you might have a hardware failure.

Works written by or about Arthur Ranken at Wikisource


Religious titles
Preceded by
David Wilson		 Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney
1880–1886		 Succeeded by
Alexander Harvey


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.