Richard Rawlinson ( 1690 - 1755 )

Birth: 03 January 1690 Death: Islington, London (06 April 1755) Burial: St Giles's Church, Oxford, with Christopher Layer's skull in his hand; his heart is in St John's College chapel, Oxford Profession: Clergyman, Nonjuring Research field: Antiquities Education: Eton College; St Paul's School, London; St John's College, Oxford; BA (1711), MA (1713), DCL (by diploma 1719); Utrecht (admitted 1719); Leyden (admitted 1719); Padua (admitted 1722) Career: Governor of the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals (1713); ordained deacon and priest (1716); travelled in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sicily and Malta (1719-1726); Governor of Christ's Hospital (1753); consecrated bishop (1728); had Jacobite sympathies, but took no part in rebellion; known for his frugality and eccentricity; he amassed large collections of books, manuscripts, coins, marbles, pictures, etc, most of which he left to the Bodleian Library; founded the Rawlinson Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford Memberships: FSA (1727) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 29/07/1714 Proposers: William Jones; John Harwood.