Marmaduke Rawdon (1610 – 1669) was an English factor and antiquary. Marmaduke Roydon White

Life

He was the youngest son of Laurence Rawdon, merchant and alderman of

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, by Margery, daughter of William Barton of

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. He was baptised in the church of St. Crux, York, on 17 March 1610, and received his education in the grammar school of St. Peter in that city. On the death of his father in 1624 he was adopted by his uncle Marmaduke Rawdon, a prominent London merchant. In 1627 Rawdon was sent to Holland as supercargo of a small merchant vessel, and then for a time was stationed at

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

. In 1631 he was factor for his uncle in

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, and he was in the

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, with brief intervals, for over 20 years.Sebek, p. 286. During his long residence at La Laguna in Gran Canaria Rawdon ascended

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. The route he took to the summit of the volcano was the same as that followed by

George Glas George Glas (1725 – 30 November 1765) was a Scottish seaman and merchant adventurer in West Africa. The son of John Glas, the divine, Glas was born at Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon. He obtained command of a ...

a century later, and by

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. In 1655, after England's diplomatic rupture with Spain, Rawdon returned to England. and during most of the rest of his life he resided with his kinsman Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon,

Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...

. He visited

Dunkirk Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France. Rawdon died, unmarried, at Hoddesdon, on 7 February 1669, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Broxbourne. By his will he left to the corporation of York a gold loving cup, and money to purchase a gold chain for the lady mayoress of York.

Works

Rawdon made extensive manuscript collections, compiled a brief history of cathedrals, and prepared for the press a genealogical memoir of his family. Nearly half a century after his death his manuscripts were in the possession of Samuel Bagnall of London (his wife was the granddaughter of Colonel Thomas Rawdon, the eldest son of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon). In 1712

Ralph Thoresby Ralph Thoresby (16 August 1658 – 16 October 1725) was an antiquarian, who was born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. Besides being a merchant, he was a nonconformist, fellow of the Royal Society, diar ...

saw the collection, and extracts from some of the manuscripts were in his ''Ducatus Leodiensis'', and in the notice of Sir George Rawdon which Edmund Gibson introduced into his edition of

William Camden William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of ''Britannia'', the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the ''Annal ...

's ''Britannia''. When Thomas Wotton was collecting materials for his ''Baronetage'' (1741), the Rawdon manuscripts were still in Bagnall's possession, but their subsequent history is unknown. Robert Davies edited for the

Camden Society The Camden Society was a text publication society founded in London in 1838 to publish early historical and literary materials, both unpublished manuscripts and new editions of rare printed books. It was named after the 16th-century antiquary an ...

''The Life of Marmaduke Rawdon of York, or Marmaduke Rawdon, the second of that name. Now first printed from the original MS. in the possession of Robert Cooke, esq., F.R.G.S.'' (1863). This memoir presents sketches of social and domestic life and manners, during the seventeenth century. The original manuscript is now in the

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(Addit. MS. 34206).

References

Charles Harding Firth Sir Charles Harding Firth (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Career Born in Sheffield, Firth was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, O ...

, ''Royalist and Cromwellian Armies in Flanders, 1657-1662'', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society New Series, Vol. 17, (1903), pp. 67–119. Published by: Royal Historical Society. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678138 *Barbara Sebek, ''Canary, Bristoles, Londres, Ingleses: English Traders in the Canaries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'', in Jyotsna G. Singh (editor), ''A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Age of Expansion'' (2009), Wiley-Blackwell , pp. 279–93

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawdon, Marmaduke 1610 births 1669 deaths English merchants English antiquarians