Sir Christopher Rawlinson 1806 - 1888
Sir Christopher Rawlinson , eldest surv. son (1847). educ. Charterhouse and Trinity Coll. Cambridge. Called to the Bar at the Middle temple in 1831. Knighted 1867, appointed Chief Justice in 1849 (held until 1859). MA Venn's Cantibrigiensis Alumni: Name: Christopher. Rawlinson College: EMMANUEL Entered: Michs. 1824 Died: Mar. 28, 1888 More Information: Adm. pens. at EMMANUEL, May 1, 1823. [2nd] s. of John (1797). B. in London; [July 10, 1806, at Combe, Hants.]. School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1824. Migrated to Trinity, Dec. 20, 1824; B.A. 1828; M.A. 1831. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Mar. 28, 1828. Called to the Bar, Nov. 25, 1831. On the Western Circuit. Recorder of Portsmouth, 1840-7. Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca, 1847-50. Knighted, 1847. Chief Justice of Madras, 1850-9. Married, May 27, 1847, Georgina Maria, younger dau. of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom. Died Mar. 28, 1888, at 33, Eaton Square, London. Father of the above, the next and John F. P. (1879). (List of Carthusians; Carthusian Worthies; Boase, III. 51; Inns of Court; D.N.B.) Entry in Who Was Who in British India. By John F. Riddick. Westport, CT:Greenwood Press, 1998. and Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. and Dictionary of Indian Biography. By C.E. Buckland. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1906. [DcInB] The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary. Part 1, From the beginnings to 1900. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Contains abstracts of the biographies found in The Dictionary of National Biography (21 volumes, New York: Macmillan Co.; London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908).
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| Born: Bloomsbury, London, , , England Jul 1806 | Baptised:
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