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John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf

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who were present there. Rhodes surrendered in December of that year. Rawson returned to Ireland and was reappointed to his previous offices. In 1525 he went abroad again and spent some time in
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moved to seize the island, Rawson was summoned to its defence. In 1519 he was given leave to go to Rhodes for three years, but the increasingly unstable political situation in Ireland caused
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Henry VIII decided to dissolve the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and after lengthy negotiations, Rawson in 1541 surrendered the Priory of Kilmainham in return for a payment of 500
37:–1547) was an English-born statesman in sixteenth-century Ireland, and was regarded as one of the mainstays of English rule in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was the last Prior of the 271:
He was one of the dominant members of the Irish Privy Council, and was said to form part of an "inner council of three" within the full Council, the other two being the
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in the 1560s and the author of several influential treatises. They had three children, including John, who inherited the White family estates at
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in 1510. In 1511 he was appointed Prior of Kilmainham; this was a position of considerable political power, entitling him to sit both in the
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By whatever means he had apparently accumulated a fortune. His natural daughter Catherine brought her husband Rowland White a large
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but was passed over, due to his age and increasing ill-health. He quarrelled with Skeffington's successor as Lord Deputy,
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children (little seems to be known of their mothers). The children, whose names are known, were:
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John Rawson joined the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1497. He is next heard of undertaking a
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Church of All Hallows by the Tower of London, where John Rawson's brother Christopher is buried
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who built up a flourishing business, but later suffered serious losses and was imprisoned for
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to revoke his leave, and he ordered Rawson to return to Ireland in 1520 to advise the
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in 1487, a practice had grown up of appointing only English Priors. In 1517 he became
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Memoir of Sir John Rawson: Knight of Rhodes, Prior of Kilmainham, Viscount Clontarf
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by Silken Thomas's men). In 1535 he was suggested as a possible
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Ottomans and Knights of the Hospitallers fighting at the
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Nicholas Rawson, who was master of the free chapel at
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He came from a family which had long been settled at
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 201 (1856), p.179-180
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Index

Viscount Clontarf
Kilmainham
Order of St John of Jerusalem
Knights Hospitaller
monks
Siege of Rhodes (1522)
holy orders
Reformation
viscount
New Fryston
West Riding of Yorkshire
alderman
Mercers' Company
Essex
Sir Michael Stanhope
Shelford, Nottinghamshire
conspiracy
Sir Richard Rawson
royal chaplain
Canon of Windsor
Merchants of the Staple
Calais
monumental brass
All Hallows-by-the-Tower
Tower of London
Gressenhall

diplomatic mission
Rome
Venice

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