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Henry Rawlinson

Profile & Legacies Summary

1743 - 1786

Biography

Lancaster West India merchant as partner in Rawlinsons & Chorley with John Chorley (q.v.), MP for Liverpool 1780-1784, son of the Lancaster slave-trader Abraham Rawlinson senior and slave-owner in Grenada with his brother-in-law and partner William Lindow (q.v.).


Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/rawlinson-henry-1743-86 [accessed 31/12/2015]. The entry says 'He was a merchant and owned property in the West Indies.'

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Married but no further details
Children
Henry Lindow
Occupation
West India merchant and plantation owner

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
Other
Gouyave and Maran Estates [ Grenada | St Mark ]

Lancashire Museums 'Abraham Rawlinson (1738-1803)' http://collections.lancsmuseums.gov.uk/narratives/narrative.php?irn=156 shows the Rawlinson family's ownership of the 'Goyave' estate on Grenada.

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
Rawlinsons & Chorley
West India merchant  
 
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Political (1)

MP
 
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Liverpool Lancashire
1780 - 1784

Relationships (5)

Henry Rawlinson
Business partners
John Chorley
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Henry Rawlinson
Brother-in-laws
William Lindow
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Notes →
Also business...
Henry Rawlinson
Father → Son
Henry Lindow Lindow formerly Rawlinson
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Henry Rawlinson
First Cousins
Abraham Rawlinson MP of Ellel Hall
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Henry Rawlinson
Brothers
Thomas Rawlinson
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Addresses (2)

Lancaster, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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Grassyard Hall, Caton, Lancashire, North-west England, England
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