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RAWLINSON, RICHARD (169o-1755)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 929 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAWLINSON, See also:RICHARD (169o-1755) , See also:English See also:antiquary and divine, was a younger son of See also:Sir See also:Thomas Rawlinson (1647-1708), See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London in 1705-6, and a See also:brother of Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), the bibliophile. See also:Born on the 3rd of See also:January 169o, he was educated at St See also:Paul's school, at See also:Eton, and at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford. In 1716 he was ordained, but as he was a nonjuror ands Jacobite the ceremony was per-formed by a nonjuring See also:bishop, See also:Jeremy See also:Collier. Rawlinson then xxu. 3otravelled in See also:England and on the See also:continent of See also:Europe, where he passed several years, making collections of See also:manuscripts, coins and curiosities. In 1728 he became a bishop among the non-jurors, but he hardly ever appears to have discharged episcopal functions, preferring to pass his See also:time in See also:collecting books and manuscripts, pictures and curiosities. He died at See also:Islington on the 6th of See also:April 1755. Rawlinson See also:left his manuscripts, his curiosities, and some other See also:property to the Bodleian Library; he endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, and was a benefactor to St John's College.

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