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Education and religious career.
Ranken was born in Brislington, near Bristol, on 5 January 1828, son of Rev. Charles Ranken Sr. He learned chess at age 12, but first made a serious study of the game while attending Wadham College, Oxford University in 1847–50. He particularly devoted himself to study of Howard Staunton's "The Chess-Player's Handbook" (1847), a book that he said "marked the beginning of a new era in English chess literature". 
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Robert Ranken
Robert Burt Ranken (24 October 1840 – 4 August 1902) was a Scottish first-class cricketer.
The son of Thomas Ranken, he was born at Edinburgh in October 1840. He was educated in the city at the Edinburgh Academy, before going up to the University of Glasgow. While at Glasgow he a recipient of the Snell Exhibition scholarship, allowing him to undertake postgraduate studies at Balliol College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of