Person:Robert Rawlinson (1)

—Robert Rawlinson of Cark hall in Com Lanc Esq^r one of the Justices of Peace & Quorum & of Oyer & Terminer for the Counties Palat of Lanc & Chest Vice Chamb of the City & County of Chester to Charles Earl of Derby Heir by his mother to Rob^t Curwen son to Walt Curwen abovemen^t ob 1665 at 55——^S1

Two Brief Biographies of

Robert Rawlinson, the nephew and heir of Robert Curwen, was born Dec. 11, 1610, he resided at Carke Hall, and was a barrister-at-law of Grays Inn, and justice of the peace for the counties of Lancaster and Chester. During the troubles of Charles I. he suffered much for his loyalty, but after the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain of the City and County of Chester to Charles Earl of Derby. He married 23rd Dec. 1639, Jane, daughter of Thomas Wilson of Heversham Hall, ancestor of the present family of Dallam Tower. They had thirteen children, of whom only two daughters, Ann and Katherine, have left descendants surviving to the present time, in the families of Askew and Rigge. Robert Rawlinson died in 1665, aged 55, and his wife in 1686, aged 66, and they are buried in the same grave in the south transept of Cartmel Church.

—taken from 'CARK HALL' in Annales Caermoelenses or Annals of Cartmel, by James Stockdale, published in 1872.—^S2

ROBERT RAWLINSON, of Cark, in Lancashire, esq. Ob. 1665, Æt. 55.† Nutting sc. 4to.

Robert Rawlinson, of Cark-hall, in Lancashire, was descended from a very ancient family of that name, formerly seated at Furnace Fells, in the same county. This gentleman was son of William Rawlinson, esq. by Margaret Curwen, only daughter of Walter Curwen, of Mireside-hall, in Cartmell, esq. He was many years a justice of the peace; one of the justices of Oyer and Terminer for the counties palatine of Lancaster and Cheshire, and vice-chamberlain for the city of Chester. He was father to Curwen Rawlinson, and grandfather to Christopher Rawlinson, esq. a person of some eminence, who is again mentioned in the reign of Charles II.

—taken from A Biographical History of England. From Egbert the Great to the Revolution, by The Rev. J. Granger, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire. Published in 1824.—^S3

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} College of Arms ms 5.D.14, 108: 'The Pedigree of Adam Askew, Esquire, of Newcastle upon Tyne'.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Annales Caermoelenses or Annals of Cartmel, by James Stockdale. Ulverston: Wllliam Kitchin, Printer, Market Street. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1872 pp. 433-469 ‘CARKE HALL.’
   pp. 442–446.

   « THE WILL OF RORERT RAWLINSON, / (From the original in the possession of Henry Fletcher Rigge.)
   IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Robert Rawlinson of Carke in Cartmell in the Countie of Lancaster Esqr. beinge infirme of body yett of sound and p'fect memorie praysed be the Lord for the same and knowing the vanitie and uncertaintie of this life and how suddenly as a flower it fadeth doe make this my last will and testam'te in manner following ...
   ...
   And I do hereby revoke all former wills by me made and to this my will have subsubscribed my name and sett my sealle this eighteenth day of October in the seaventeenth yeare of the raigne of o'r soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second and in the yeare of our lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and five.
   ROBERT RAWLINSON. »
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3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 A Biographical History of England, From Egbert the Great to the Revolution: Consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads: Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits: Interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other biographical work. ... By The Rev. J. Granger, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire. Fifth Edition, with upwards of four hundred additional lives. In six volumes: Vol. IV. London: Printed for William Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row, 1824
   p. 23.

   ROBERT RAWLINSON, of Cark, in Lancashire, esq. Ob. 1665, Æt. 55.† Nutting sc. 4to.
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4. ↑ The registers of the Parish church of Cartmel : Part 2: 1660-1723. Transcribed, edited and indexed by Robert Dickinson. Cartmel, Parish church. [S.l.] : [Preston?] Printed for the Lancashire parish register society, 1957,
   p. 133.

   « 1665 BURIALS 133 / ... / Oct. / ... /
   30 ... / Mr. Robt. Rawlinson 2 [interpolated in different ink] »