William Rawlinson

1840 — 1928
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William Rawlinson 1840 — 1928
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May Margherita Cridland —   Mary Rawlinson —   Hugh William Rawlinson 1878 — 1963  

William Rawlinson


Born in 1840, the third year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and died aged eighty-seven in the eighteenth year of the reign of King George V

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According to The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society, William Rawlinson was a silk mercer living in Hill Lodge on the south side of Campden Square in 1880. He was a partner in James Pearsall & Company (silk merchants) and worked with Thomas Wardle of Leek to reintroduce old methods of dyeing silk using natural dyes from the East. He became a distinguished Turner expert, building up an unrivalled  

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