Authorised form of name | Rawlinson; Richard (1690 - 1755) |
Dates | 1690 - 1755 |
Date of birth | 03 January 1690 |
Place of death | Islington, London |
Date of death | 06 April 1755 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: St Giles's Church, Oxford, with Christopher Layer's skull in his hand; his heart is in St John's College chapel, Oxford |
Occupation | Clergyman, Nonjuring |
Research field | Antiquities |
Activity | Education: Eton College; St Paul's School, London; St John's College, Oxford; BA (1711), MA (1713), DCL (by diploma 1719); Utrecht (admitted 1719); Leyden (admitted 1719); Padua (admitted 1722) Career: Governor of the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals (1713); ordained deacon and priest (1716); travelled in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sicily and Malta (1719-1726); Governor of Christ's Hospital (1753); consecrated bishop (1728); had Jacobite sympathies, but took no part in rebellion; known for his frugality and eccentricity; he amassed large collections of books, manuscripts, coins, marbles, pictures, etc, most of which he left to the Bodleian Library; founded the Rawlinson Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford Memberships: FSA (1727)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 29/07/1714 |
Proposer | William Jones |
John Harwood |
Relationships | Son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, Kt, Lord Mayor of London, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Richard Taylor of Turnham Green, Middlesex, who kept the Devil Tavern by the Temple; brother of Thomas Rawlinson (FRS 1712); unmarried |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; St Paul's References: A Rupert Hall, review of Georgian R Tashjian, David R Tashjian and Brian J Enright, eds, Richard Rawlinson: A Tercentenary Memorial in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 190-191 Gentleman's Magazine 1755, p187, 1772, p275 (obituary) London Magazine 1755, p88, 1755, p205 (Account of Dr Rawlinson's will) |
Code | NA5769 |
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