RICHARD

See also:

• RAWLINSON, GEORGE (1812-1902)
• RICHARD RAWLINSON (169o-1755)
• RAWLINSON, SIR HENRY CRESWICKE (1810—1895)
• RAWLINSON, SIR ROBERT (1810—1898)

RAWLINSON (169o-1755)  , English antiquary and divine, was a younger son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson (1647-1708), lord mayor of London in 1705-6, and a brother of Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725), the bibliophile . Born on the 3rd of January 169o, he was educated at St Paul's school, at Eton, and at St John's College, Oxford . In 1716 he was ordained, but as he was a nonjuror ands Jacobite the ceremony was per-formed by a nonjuring bishop, Jeremy Collier . Rawlinson then xxu . 3otravelled in England and on the continent of Europe, where he passed several years, making collections of 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 time in collecting books and manuscripts, pictures and curiosities . He died at Islington on the 6th of April 1755 . Rawlinson left his manuscripts, his curiosities, and some other property to the Bodleian Library; he endowed a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, and was a benefactor to St John's College .