Rankin Grimshaw

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Hibee
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Rankin Grimshaw

Post by Hibee » Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:29 pm

RANKIN GRIMSHAW was a player in the Burntisland Shipyard football team in the early 1930s. He was better known as Raith Rovers chairman and also owner of “Brown's Bazaar”, a sports shop on Kirkcaldy High Street, and he went on to become the President of The Scottish Football Association.

I knew someone who, on hearing of each Raith Rovers' defeat, could be depended on to deliver the line "Aye, it was a rank and grim shaw, the day".

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Currie
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Re: Rankin Grimshaw

Post by Currie » Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:57 am

And here’s his obituary in the Evening Times, which is now accessible online from 1951 to 1990 at Google News Archive. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oy ... vers&hl=en

Alan