Richard Rawlinson
Richard Rawlinson FRS (3 January 1690 – 6 April 1755) was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.[1]
Life
Richard Rawlinson was a younger son of
Rawlinson travelled in England and on the continent of Europe, where he passed several years, making very diverse collections of books, manuscripts, pictures and curiosities [2] of manuscripts, coins and curiosities, his books alone forming three libraries, English, foreign and Classical.
Rawlinson was a friend of the antiquarian Thomas Hearne and, among his voluminous writings, published a Life of the antiquary Anthony Wood.
Towards the end of his life, Rawlinson quarrelled with both the Royal Society and the
He died at Islington, London.
Richard Rawlinson is buried at St John's College, Oxford, allegedly holding the skull of Christopher Layer, an executed Jacobite. . Rawlinson Road in North Oxford is named after him.[4]
Notes
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 331–333.
- ^ "His collections in the Bodleian Library defeat the most persistent attempts at analysis" Brian J. Enright wrote in his introductory remarks to Tashjian and Enright 1991.
- ^ He stipulated in his will that no F.R.S. or F.R.A.—-nor Irishman nor Scot nor native of the colonies—-should hold the chair he endowed, a direction that was ignored. (Tashjian and Enright 1991).
- ISBN 1-899536-25-6.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rawlinson, Richard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 929. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Rawlinson Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK.
Further reading
- Georgian R. Tashjian, David R. Tashjian, and Brian J. Enright (1991), Richard Rawlinson: A Tercentenary Memorial (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications). ISBN 0-932826-23-7.