Ranking Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Dudhope, co. Forfar, 1872, paternally Campbell). Or, a Lochaber axe fessways sa. betw. two boars’ heads couped gu. Crest—A dexter hand ppr. holding a spur or, the strap also ppr. Motto—Forget not.

(cos. Cumberland and Lancaster; borne by Surgeon-General James Lancaster Ranking, late Inspector General of Hospitals at Madras). Gu. three boars’ heads erased ppr. langued az. betw. on tbe dexter a Lochaber axe, and on the sinister a boar spear ar. Crest—A boar’s head erased ppr. langued gu. Motto—Fortiter et recte. Registered in 1678 as the arms of Walter Rankin, of Orchardhead, co. Stirling, N.B. He, the present representative, quarters the arms of Lancaster, in right of his paternal grandmother, the representative of the Lancasters of Kendal, viz., Ar. two bars gu. on a canton of the second a lion pass guard, or.