Rawdon may refer to:
Places
in England
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Rawdon, West Yorkshire
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Rawdon Colliery, Leicestershire
in Canada
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Rawdon, Quebec
Rawdon is a municipality located on the Ouareau River in southwestern Quebec, Canada, about 60 kilometres north of Montreal. It is the seat for the Matawinie Regional County Municipality, Regional County Municipality of Matawinie, in the Lanaudiè ...
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Rawdon, Ontario, a historic township merged since 1997 into the municipality of
Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario
Stirling-Rawdon is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Hastings County. It was formed on January 1, 1998, through the amalgamation of Rawdon Township with the Village of Stirling. Stirling was named the 2012 Kraft Hockeyvil ...
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Rawdon Township, Nova Scotia, a historic township merged since 1861 into the Municipal District of East Hants
People
* The ''Rawdon Baronets of Moira, County Down'', also ''Baron Rawdon'' and ''Earl Rawdon'' or ''Earl of Rawdon'', as titles in the lineage of the
Marquess of Hastings
Marquess of Hastings was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 6 December 1816 for Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira.
History
The Rawdon family descended from Francis Rawdon (d. 1668), of Rawdon, Yorkshire. Hi ...
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Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, (9 December 175428 November 1826), styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762, Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783, The Lord Rawdon from 1783 to 1793 and The Earl of Moira b ...
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John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira
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James Rawdon Stansfeld (1866–1936), British army officer
Fictional characters
* Col.
Rawdon Crawley and his son and namesake Sir Rawdon Crawley, characters in the 1848 novel ''
Vanity Fair'' by
William Makepeace Thackeray
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