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Sir Richard Sims Donkin Rankine, KCMG (1875 – 24 June 1961) was a British colonial administrator. He was the British Resident in Zanzibar from 1930 to 1937.
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"Sir Richard Rankine", The Times, 26 June 1961, p. 14.