William Bawdwen (1762–1816) was a Church of England clergyman, school teacher and English antiquary.
[1] Bawdwen married Ann, daughter of William Shackleton, of Wakefield on 30 December 1793, and died at Hooton Pagnell on 14 September 1816, leaving twelve children.
Bawdwen began a translation of the Domesday Book from the edition published by the Record Commission in 1783; he intended to complete it in ten volumes, but two only appeared before his death.
The first volume was published in 1809 at Doncaster with a dedication to Lord Fitzwilliam, under the title of Dom Boc; a translation of the Record called Domesday, so far as relates to the county of York, including Amounderness, Lonsdale, and Furness in Lancashire, and such parts of Westmoreland, Cumberland, as are contained in the Survey; also the counties of Derby, Nottingham, Rutland, and Lincoln, with an introduction, glossary, and indexes.
Bawdwen also contributed a translation of the Domesday survey of Dorset to the fourth volume of John Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire.