Life
Born at Springfield, Essex, on 13 June 1677, he was the second son of Curwen Rawlinson of Carke Hall in Cartmell, Lancashire, and M.P. for Lancaster in 1688, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Nicholas Monck. He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, on 14 June 1695.
He inherited his father's estates, and died in Holborn Row, London, on 8 January 1733. He was buried in the abbey church of St Albans, Hertfordshire. His portrait, engraved by Joseph Nutting, with those of other members of his family, is in the Bodleian Library (Bromley).
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