Papers of Lady Rankine

Xerox copy of a typescript account by Lady Rankine of the visit of HM Queen Elizabeth II to Western Nigeria, February 1956.

Janet Grace, Lady Rankine (d 1976) was the wife of Sir John Rankine (1907-1987), knight and colonial administrator and daughter of Major R.L. Austin of Clifton, Bristol.

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Collection level description created by Paul Davidson, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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Papers of Sir John Rankine, mostly correspondence and papers concerning colonial administration, 1952-1962 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 2237).