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===[[name::Christopher]] [[name::RAWLINSON]] [[date of birth::1677]]-[[date of death::1733]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born at [[place of birth::Springfield, Essex]], son of [[family::Curwen Rawlinson]], of [[location::Carke Hall, Lancashire]], landowner and [[occupation::MP]], from whom he inherited the family estates. Matriculated at [[education::Queen's College, Oxford]] 1695, but did not graduate; at Oxford, he became interested in Anglo-Saxon studies as part of the circle of [[associates::Edward Thwaites]], and in 1698 he published an edition of Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius. He subsequently devoted much of his life to antiquarian researches.

====Books====
Rawlinson used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 24622). The extent of his library is not known; he died intestate and unmarried, and Carke Hall was inherited by the children of his aunts. He had assembled various [[format::manuscript]] collections relating to the history of the north-west and it is recorded that after his death "his manuscripts were disposed of in bundles and bought for pence by the villagers [of [[location::Cartmel]]]" (''ODNB''). A copy of the 1665 Dordrecht edition of the Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and Gothic, with Rawlinson's ownership stamped at the head of the titlepage, was sold at Sotheby's, 18 December 1995, lot 92.

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*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
*Wroth, W. W., and Mary Clapinson. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23188 "Rawlinson, Christopher (1677–1733), antiquary."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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