Robert Sutherland Rattray, GBE, known as Captain R. S. Rattray (1881 in India – 1938), was a barrister and held a diploma in Anthropology from Oxford.
He was an early Africanist and student of the Ashanti. He was one of the early writers on Oware, and on Ashanti gold weights.[1] An amusement park constructed by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly is named Rattray park in memory of R.S. Rattray.[2]