John Frederick Peel Rawlinson (21 December 1860 – 14 January 1926) was an English barrister, politician and

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. An

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, he won the

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with

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and made one appearance for

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playing as a

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, before serving as a Member of Parliament for

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from 1906 to 1926.

Career

Football

The youngest son of Sir Christopher Rawlinson, a former Chief Justice of Madras, John Rawlinson was born in

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, Hampshire and educated at

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, and

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, before going up to

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where he won a Cambridge University football "

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" in 1882 and 1883. He continued to play for the

whilst at university, helping them reach three successive

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from

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, losing out 3–0 to Old Carthusians in 1881 and going down to a surprise 2–1 defeat to

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in 1883. In the 1882 FA Cup Final, he was goalkeeper for the Old Etonians in the final against

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. According to the match report in Gibbons' "Association Football in Victorian England", after the Old Etonians went 1–0 up by half-time, "Rovers had a couple of chances to level the scores, which were easily dealt with by Rawlinson in the Etonian goal" thus helping the Etonians to claim the cup for the second time in four seasons. His solitary appearance for

came on 18 February 1882 against

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. As goalkeeper, he had little to do as the England forwards ran riot, scoring thirteen goals without reply. In 1882, he became a member of the committee for the

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and later served on

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committee from 1885 to 1886. He was also a member of the Wanderers club. C.W. Alcock described Rawlinson as an "excellent goalkeeper, cool and sure", though he was said to be almost too casual at times.

Legal and political career

At university Rawlinson was a Prizeman in Common Law and achieved degrees of 1st Class Law Tripos in 1882,

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in 1883,

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in 1887, and honorary

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from the same university in 1920. He qualified as a

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and was called to the bar at the

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in 1884, becoming a QC in 1897, practising on the South-East Circuit. He was a member of the

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from its inception in 1894 and later served as vice-chairman. He was appointed

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in 1896, and in 1901 became a county Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire. In 1895, he legally represented the

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at the government official inquiry into the

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in South Africa. He was elected

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Member of Parliament for

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and continued as an MP until his death. He was co-author with his father of "Rawlinson's Municipal Corporations' Acts" (1883), which became a standard work on the local government laws and went into ten editions. He was appointed a

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. Rawlinson was a school governor of Eton, Malvern and

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, Fellow of Eton College, Honorary Fellow of

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, and from 1918 Deputy High Steward of Cambridge University.

Death

John Frederick Peel Rawlinson Grave 2016

Rawlinson died on 14 January 1926, unmarried, at his chambers in 5 Crown Office Row, Temple, London, after ten days' illness with

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aged 65, and was buried at

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, Surrey.

Honours

Football

Old Etonians *

winner:

finalist:

References

External links

* *
England profile
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