Abraham Rawlinson

He took over his father's business in 1756, creating a new company Abraham Rawlinson Junr.

The portrait was done in the 1760s before Rawlinson became an MP, and shows the subject holding a telescope to indicate his mercantile interests: it is currently on display in the Judges' Lodgings Museum, Lancaster.

[1][4] The museum also has a silver cup presented to him in 1790 by his "fellow citizens" in gratitude for his parliamentary service.

[2] Rawlinson appears to have given up his membership of the Quakers by the time he became an MP, as he would otherwise not have been able to swear an oath of allegiance to the King, a requirement which excluded Quakers from parliament until the nineteenth century.

[6] As an MP, he consistently opposed the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade.