Daniel Rawlinson (died 1679), of Graythwaite and London, was a vintner in London, where he kept the Mitre Tavern on Fenchurch Street. [1] [2]
Rawlinson was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School.[ citation needed]
He was a friend of Samuel Pepys and is mentioned a number of times in Pepys' diary. [1] According to a letter from Dr. Richard Rawlinson to Tom Herne, an antiquary at Oxford, he seems to have been a staunch royalist: "The Whiggs [ sic] tell this, that upon the king's [ Charles I] murder, January 30th, 1649, he hung his signe [ sic] in mourning". [2]
His wife Margaret died in 1666 of plague and his business burned down in the Great Fire of that year. [1] [2] He later rebuilt the Mitre. [2] His son Thomas Rawlinson became Lord Mayor of London in 1705, and his grandsons include Thomas Rawlinson and Richard Rawlinson, [2] the latter a great benefactor to the Bodleian Library.
- ^ a b c "Daniel Rawlinson (Biographical details)". British Museum.
- ^ a b c d e Pepys, Samuel (1896). The Diary of Samuel Pepys ... G. Bell and sons. p. 174. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
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