Sir Thomas Rawlinson (1647 – 1708) was an English merchant who served as the

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in 1705. He became president of

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Biography

Rawlinson was the son of

Daniel Rawlinson Daniel Rawlinson (died 1679), of Graythwaite and London, was a vintner in London, where he kept the Mitre Tavern on Fenchurch Street. Biography Rawlinson was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School. He was a friend of Samuel Pepys and is mentione ...

and his wife Margaret. He was born in the parish of St. Dionis Backchurch, London, and was baptised on 1 April 1647. His father was a London vintner, who kept the Mitre tavern in

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, and owned land at Graysdale, Lancashire, where the family came from. Rawlinson followed his father into business as a vintner. He married Mary Taylor, eldest daughter of Richard Taylor, of

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, who kept the Devil tavern by the Temple. Rawlinson was admitted a freeman of the Vintners' Company on 12 October 1670, and was elected master in 1687 and in 1696. The company possess a silver-gilt standing cup and cover presented to them by Rawlinson in 1687. On 6 August 1686 he was knighted at Windsor, and in the following month was appointed by the king, with Sir Thomas Fowles,

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and Middlesex (Luttrell, Relation of State Affairs, i. 385). He was elected alderman of the ward of Castle Baynard on 1 December 1696, and was appointed colonel of the trained bands in July 1690, and colonel of the White regiment on 21 June 1705. On 22 September 1705 he became president of

, and on

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following was chosen lord mayor. During his mayoralty the city celebrated

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's victories in

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during the

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. At Rawlinson's request the

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presented the trophies and colours taken at Ramillies and other engagements to the city, to be hung in the

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. Rawlinson died in November 1708 at his house in the Old Bailey, and was buried on 18 November in the church of St. Dionis, in the tomb of his father. By his wife, Rawlinson had fifteen children including sons Thomas Rawlinson and

Richard Rawlinson Richard Rawlinson Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 January 1690 – 6 April 1755) was an England, English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford. ...

. A portrait of Rawlinson is in the court room at Vintners' Hall. His will, dated 20 January 1700, with a codicil of 28 July 1707 (Lane, 44), mentions the manor of Wasperton in Warwickshire, and his ancestral property in Graysdale rizedale, Cumbria His wife was buried in St. Dionis Church on 1 March 1725.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlinson, Thomas 1647 births 1708 deaths 17th-century English merchants 18th-century lord mayors of London