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Richard Rawlinson
Richard Rawlinson FRS (3 February 1690 – 6 April 1755) was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Life.
Richard Rawlinson was a younger son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson (1647–1708), Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1705-6, and a brother of Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725), the bibliophile who ruined himself in the South Sea Company, at whose sale in 1734 Richard bought many of the Orientalia.
Samuel Sutton Rawlinson
Samuel Sutton Rawlinson (1809 – 18 July 1880) was an architect and engineer known for his work in Nottingham.
Life.
He was born in Wallingford, Berkshire in 1809, son of George Rawlinson. In 1827 he was living in Bridgewater, Somerset as an articled clerk to Richard Carver. His father was also in Bridgewater as a lace manufacturer.
In 1853 he was on the board of the Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society.
Later he worked as a dealer in lace