Richard Rawlinson: a tercentenary memorial
. Edited by Georgian R. Tashjian, David R. Tashjian and Brian J. Enright. New Issues Press, Western Michigan University, 1990. Pp. xviii + 221. ISBN 0-932826-23-7 In scholarly contexts the name Rawlinson reminds one of a notable collection of manuscripts of very diverse natures in the Bodleian Library, and of the Rawlinson Professorship of Anglo-Saxon (as it was until 1913, when it was refounded under the will of Joseph Bosworth), in the University of Oxford. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), double benefactor of his university, was an antiquary, a saver of old papers from the chandlers and pastry-cooks, author of the
Life of Anthony Wood
, close friend for many years of Thomas Hearne, member from 1727 of the Society of Antiquaries (revived by Newton’s friend William Stukeley, F.R.S., in 1717).