| 词条 | Edmund Charles Rawlings |
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Edmund Charles Rawlings JP (11 December 1854 – 17 December 1917),[1] was a British solicitor, a Liberal Party politician, and a prominent Primitive Methodist. He served as mayor of Hammersmith. FamilyRawlings was born on 11 December 1854 at Wallingford, Oxfordshire to parents Edmund Rawlings (a Primitive Methodist minister) and Susannah Cock. 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] He married Amy Yates (1857-1914) in 1879 at Wilton, Wiltshire, and they had three children. He died on 17 December 1917 in Ealing.[1] Political careerIn October 1900 Rawlings contested the UK General Election as Liberal candidate for Islington North.[2] In November 1900 he was elected a Hammersmith Borough Councillor at Hammersmith's first borough council elections. He was later appointed an Alderman of the borough council. He also served as Mayor of Hammersmith from 1906-07.[3] He stood several times for election to the London County Council as a Progressive candidate, without success. In 1895 and 1901 he contested Hammersmith. In 1910 he contested the City of London. Rawlings took an active part in the relief of the unemployed and assistance of cripples. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for the County of London.[3] Electoral record{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1900: Islington North [4]}}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = George Trout Bartley |votes =4,881 |percentage =65.5 |change = }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate =Edmund Charles Rawlings |votes =2,567 |percentage =34.5 |change = }}{{Election box majority| |votes =2,314 |percentage =31.0 |change = }}{{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage =62.3 |change = }}{{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = }}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin | |title=London County Council election, 1901: Hammersmith [5] }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party =Conservative Party (UK) |candidate =Edward Collins |votes =3,128 |percentage =26.1 |change =-2.4 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party =Conservative Party (UK) |candidate =Jocelyn Brandon |votes =3,110 |percentage =25.9 |change =-2.2 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party =Progressive Party (London) |candidate =WT Lord |votes =2,885 |percentage =24.0 |change =+2.2 }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party =Progressive Party (London) |candidate =Edmund Charles Rawlings |votes =2,874 |percentage =24.0 |change =+2.4 }}{{Election box hold with party link| |winner =Conservative Party (UK) |swing =-2.3 }}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin| |title=London County Council election, 1910: City of London [6] }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Municipal Reform Party |candidate=Nathaniel Louis Cohen |votes=5,413 |percentage=21.0 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Municipal Reform Party |candidate=James William Domoney |votes=5,404 |percentage=20.9 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Municipal Reform Party |candidate=Herbert Stuart Sankey |votes=5,383 |percentage=20.9 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Municipal Reform Party |candidate=William Henry Pannell |votes=5,370 |percentage=20.8 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Progressive Party (London) |candidate=Edmund Charles Rawlings |votes=1,439 |percentage=5.6 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Progressive Party (London) |candidate=Harold James Glanville |votes=1,403 |percentage=5.4 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Progressive Party (London) |candidate=Samuel Lammas Dore |votes=1,403 |percentage=5.4 |change= }}{{Election box candidate with party link| |party=Progressive Party (London) |candidate=Frederick Link |votes=1,393 |percentage=5.4 |change= }}{{Election box majority| |votes= |percentage= |change= }}{{Election box hold with party link| |winner=Municipal Reform Party |swing= }}{{Election box end}} Religious activitiesRawlings was prominently involved with the Primitive Methodist movement, serving as vice-president and addressing its June 1905 conference in Scarborough.[1][7] He wrote two PM publications: the Free Churchman's Legal Handbook, and (with a Dr Townsend) the Free Churchman’s Guide to the Education Act of 1902.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|last1=Dickinson|first1=Geoff|title=Edmund Charles Rawlings J.P.|url=http://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/page/edmund_charles_rawlings_jp?path=0p3p90p|website=My Primitive Methodist Ancestors|accessdate=19 January 2017}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlings, Edmund Charles}}2. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig 3. ^1 ‘RAWLINGS, Edmund Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 January 2017 4. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig 5. ^London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 4 March 1901: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 22 September 2016. 6. ^"London County Council Election." Times [London, England] 7 March 1910: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 1 May 2016. 7. ^{{cite news|title=Eighty-sixth annual conference at Scarborough|url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:15m1257&datastreamId=FULL-TEXT.PDF|accessdate=19 January 2017|work=The Primitive Methodist Leader|date=22 June 1905}} 4 : 1854 births|1917 deaths|Liberal Party (UK) politicians|Progressive Party (London) politicians |
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