He was born at Breachacha Castle on the Isle of Coll, the son of Neil Rankin, the resident piper at the castle, and Catherine Maclean.
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He was named high sheriff for the island and so was responsible for collecting quitrents for Lieutenant Governor Charles Douglass Smith.
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