J. Arthur Rank

J. Arthur Rank's name was parodied on the PBS children's educational TV show The Electric Company as "J. Arthur Crank" (voiced and later performed by Jim Boyd), a character wearing a plaid shirt, suspenders and a porkpie hat, who was in a perpetually cranky mood (hence his name) whenever he interrupted sketches to complain when spellings or pronunciations confused him or when he was mistaken for someone else. The Lady Rank was honored by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the couple's charitable work in the naming of a Tyne-class lifeboat, The Lady Rank (ON 1114), stationed at Angle Lifeboat Station in Pembrokeshire, Wales from 1987 to 2008, due in part to generous donations by the…