Mary Rankin Swan

Born Mary Anne Rankin in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1865.^[2] Her father was Hamilton Rankin of Camdonagh, County Donegal, he was an inspector of waterworks.^[2] She married the artist John Macallan Swan in Cork in 1884.^[3] She was an artist who specialised in depictions of children and occasionally sculptures.^[4][5]

Together, they had two children, John Barye Rankin, an engineer who served as a Naval Volunteer Reserve ^[6][7] in the First World War, and Mary Alice, who went on to become a sculptor and medalist.^[8]

The family lived in London.^[8] She died in 1944.^[2]