Dorning Rasbotham (c. 1730 – 7 November 1791) was an English writer,

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and artist. He was also

High Sheriff of Lancashire The High Sheriff of Lancashire is an ancient officer, now largely ceremonial, granted to Lancashire, a county in North West England. High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown, in England and Wales. The High Sheriff of Lanca ...

(1769). Dorning Rasbotham was the son of Peter and Hannah (Dorning) Rasbotham. He was married to Sarah Bayley c. 1754.

His portrait as a stipple and line engraving by Henry Robinson, after Henry Pickering was published in 1833. His paintings may be found in the

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collections of the

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by Dorning Rasbotham, etching, mid 18th century NPG D18109 *

by Dorning Rasbotham, etching, mid 18th century NPG D18110 *Possibly Dorning Rasbotham by Dorning Rasbotham, pen and

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, 1750s −1780s, NPG D18106 *View of Old Blackfriars Bridge and St. Mary's Church by Dorning Rasbotham, etching, 1775, NPG D18108 * James Wylde by Dorning Rasbotham, pen and

, 1780s, NPG D18107 He died in Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire. One of his sons, another Dorning Rasbotham, is associated with

Alkrington Hall Alkrington Garden Village is a suburban area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester England. Historically a part of Lancashire, in the Middle Ages Alkrington was a township in the parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldh ...

, Middleton near

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, a noble brick building surrounded by a park of ), whose architect was

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(1686–1746). In 1845 the hall and estate were sold by Doming Rasbotham – the nephew of John Lever (of the Sir Ashton Lever family) to the Lees brothers of Clarksfield,

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, Lancashire, for £57,550.

References

*History of Lancashire by Edward Baines, MP, Vol III, Published by Fisher and Son, London, 1836

Dorning in England and United States, America by Barbara Dennis and Jeanne Walker.

External links

National Portrait Gallery images
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rasbotham, Dorning 1730 births 1791 deaths People from Farnworth 18th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters High Sheriffs of Lancashire 18th-century English male artists