Marmaduke Rawdon (antiquary)

He was the youngest son of Laurence Rawdon, merchant and alderman of York, by Margery, daughter of William Barton of Cawton, Yorkshire.

He was baptised in the church of St. Crux, York, on 17 March 1610, and received his education in the grammar school of St. Peter in that city.

[2] During his long residence at La Laguna in Gran Canaria Rawdon ascended Mount Teide.

[1] Rawdon made extensive manuscript collections, compiled a brief history of cathedrals, and prepared for the press a genealogical memoir of his family.

In 1712 Ralph Thoresby saw the collection, and extracts from some of the manuscripts were in his Ducatus Leodiensis, and in the notice of Sir George Rawdon which Edmund Gibson introduced into his edition of William Camden's Britannia.

When Thomas Wotton was collecting materials for his Baronetage (1741), the Rawdon manuscripts were still in Bagnall's possession, but their subsequent history is unknown.