Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley

RAWNSLEY, Hardwicke Drummond. b. Shiplake-on-Thames, 18 September 1851; d. Grasmere, Westmorland (now Cumbria), 28 May 1920. The son of the rector of Shiplake, he was educated at Uppingham School and Balliol College, Oxford (BA 1874). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1875, priest 1877, after serving as chaplain of Clifton College Mission). He became vicar of Low Wray, near Windermere (1878-83), and in 1883 he became vicar of Crosthwaite and rural dean of Keswick. From 1888 to 1895 he served on Cumberland County Council. He was appointed an honorary canon of Carlisle Cathedral in 1893 and a residentiary canon in 1909. He was made honorary chaplain to the King in 1912. He retired to Grasmere in...