Edmund Charles Rawlings

He moved to London aged 14, becoming a solicitor in 1879 and forming a partnership in the City of London at Walbrook with Mr S Alford Butt (also the son of a Primitive Methodist minister).

[1] In October 1900 Rawlings contested the UK General Election as Liberal candidate for Islington North.

[3] He stood several times for election to the London County Council as a Progressive candidate, without success.

Rawlings took an active part in the relief of the unemployed and assistance of cripples.

[3] Rawlings was prominently involved with the Primitive Methodist movement, serving as vice-president and addressing its June 1905 conference in Scarborough.