RAWDON, George (1604-84), of Rawdon Hall, Guiseley, Yorks. and Moira, co. Down.

Family and Education

b. 1604, 1st s. of Francis Rawdon of Rawdon and Dorothy, da. of William Aldborough of Aldborough, Yorks.Vis. Yorks. 1584-5 and 1612, 565. educ. schools at Bradford and York. m. (1) 1635, Ursula, da. of Sir Francis Stafford of Portglenore, co. Antrim, wid. of Francis Hill of Castle Eagle, co. Down, s.p.;CB; McGrath, Biographical Dict. (2) 4 Sept. 1654, Dorothy, da. of Edward Conway†, 2nd Visct. Conway and Killulta, 7s. 3da.SP63/285, f. 243; The Rawdon Pprs. ed. E. Berwick (1819), 15-16. cr. bt. 20 May 1665.CSP Dom. 1664-5, p. 257; CB. suc. fa. April 1668. d. 18 Aug. 1684.CB.

Offices Held

Household: secretary to 1st Visct. Conway, c.1625–41?;CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 54; CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 162. power of att. over 2nd Visct. Conway’s Irish estates by July 1653.CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 394–5.

Irish: MP, Belfast 1640; Carlingford 1661–6.McGrath, Biographical Dict.; CJI, i. 592. Commr. revenue, Ulster by Sept. 1651-aft. Mar. 1652;SP28/83, f. 3; SP28/84, ff. 296, 300; SP28/85. f. 47. examination of confiscated lands, 1653;McGrath, Biographical Dict. assessment, cos. Antrim, Down 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655, 24 June 1657.An Assessment for Ire. (1654, 1655, 1657). J.p. co. Down by Apr. 1655-aft. Oct. 1658.CSP Ire. 1647–60, pp. 564, 660; SP63/287, f. 200. Trustee, 1649 officers by 1657-aft. 1675.CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 634; Stowe 208, f. 386. Commr. church livings, June 1657.St. J.D. Seymour, The Puritans in Ire. (Oxford, 1921), 145, 158. Member for co. Antrim, gen. convention, Mar. 1660.Clarke, Prelude to Restoration, 170. Commr. poll money, cos. Antrim, Down 1660–1.Irish Census, 1659, 626–7, 645. PC by Oct. 1673-aft. Apr. 1679.HMC Ormonde, o.s. ii. 258–360.

Military: capt. of horse, regt. of Visct. Conway, British forces in Ulster, 1641–3;CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 351; SP28/139, unfol.: John Davies’s acct. 1642. maj. of horse, regt. of Arthur Hill*, c.1644-July 1649;HMC Egmont, i. 238; CSP Ire. 1633–47, p. 522; 1647–60, p. 30; Rawdon Pprs. ed. Berwick, 177. capt. of horse, royal army in Ireland, Oct. 1660–d.HMC Ormonde, o.s. i. 241–331; ii. 187–226; CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 288.

Civic: freeman, Belfast Mar. 1643.McGrath, Biographical Dict.

: of Rawdon Hall, Guiseley, Yorks. and Moira, co. Down.

Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, R. White, c.1667.BM; NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

RAWDON, George (1604-84), of Rawdon Hall, Guiseley, Yorks. and Moira, co. Down.

Will

Estates

house and lands at Moira, co. Down, by 1636;SP16/316, f. 189. 60-year lease of Brook Hill and six townlands, co. Antrim, from Visct. Conway, renewed 1649;CSP Ire. 1647-60, pp. 267-8. leased lands in Ballynehatty and Ballymullvally, co. Down, c.Feb. 1650;HEHL, Hasting MSS, HAM Box 75/14. £1,163 arrears allocated (in land?), aft. Dec. 1656;CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 608. purchased 3,278 acres of army lands in co. Down, 26 May 1657;HEHL, Hastings MSS, Legal Box 11(6). 2,000 acres of adventure lands in Massereene barony, co. Antrim, allocated Jan. 1658.CSP Ire. 1647-60, p. 661. In 1670 held land in 34 townlands in co. Down, and smaller estates in cos. Meath, Louth and Dublin.Down Survey website.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

London addresses during 1630s inc. Durham House (Strand), Channel Row, St Martin’s Lane and Longacre.CSP Dom. 1631-3, pp. 282, 389; 1635, p. 137; 1635-5, p. 443; CSP Ire. 1633-47, p. 116.

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