Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
Eton College; Trinity College.
Football Old Etonians finalist: 1881 & 1883 Legal and political career He qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1884, becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1897, practising on the South-East Circuit. He was appointed recorder of Cambridge in 1896, and in 1901 became a county Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire. In 1895 he legally represented the Treasury at the government official inquiry into the Jameson Raid in South Africa.
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 Privy Counsellor in 1923. Rawlinson was a school governor of Eton, Malvern and Brighton College, Fellow of Eton College, Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and from 1918 Deputy High Steward of Cambridge University.
Rawlinson died, unmarried, at his chambers in 5 Crown Office Row, Temple, London, after ten days" illness with pleurisy at the age of 65, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, Surrey.
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He was a member of the General Council of the Bar from its inception in 1894 and later served as Vice-Chairman.
He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Cambridge University in 1906 and continued as an Member of Parliament until his death.