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Rawnsley! Thou shouldst be living at this hour
Canon Rawnsley was one of the most remarkable men you've never heard of. I first came across his name when I was 14 and my violin teacher entered me for the Rawnsley Prize at the Carlisle Music Festival, an honour in itself. I came fourth out of four, being rubbish on the violin. There was also some Rawnsley Shield when I was in the Boy Scouts, but I can't remember what for. Knots or woggles, probably. Then I grew up and forgot the name Rawnsley.
Five years ago, after writing several books about railways and Lakeland, and about Beatrix Potter and Wordsworth, in which Rawnsley kept appearing as a minor, walk-on character, I tried to persuade several London publishers to let me do his biography. They all yawned, saying it must be time for lunch. No, but, he was amazing man, I said. An unknown Victorian vicar, they said, who lived in some obscure part of the provinces? Who wants a book about him? Ah, but he was a founder of the National Trust, and its centenary comes up in Very boring subject, the National Trust, they said. So I tried the Beatrix Potter angle, how Rawnsley played a vital part in her life. That got a bit more interest. But no.
They were probably right. Nobody else this year has done his biog. Not even the National
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'Founders of the National Trust', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Astrid Swenson, ‘Founders of the National Trust (act. –)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 08b; online edn, Jan [] © Oxford University Press Founders of the National Trust (act. –) campaigned for the preservation of open spaces and historic buildings, establishing a body to hold ‘places of historic interest or natural beauty’ for the nation. Envisaged by Octavia Hill to ‘consist of men and women who should be free from the tendency to sacrifice such treasures to mercenary considerations, or to vulgarizing them in accordance with popular cries’ (Darley, ), the society was incorporated under the Joint Stock Companies Act in The National Trust Act in gave it the unique power to hold property on an inalienable basis. The foundation of the National Trust is traditionally attributed to Octavia Hill, the housing reformer who viewed open spaces as fundamental for the physical and moral well-being of the working classes, Sir Robert Hunter, honorary solicitor to the Commons Preservation Society, and Hardwicke Rawnsley, a clergyman campaigning for the preservation of the Lake District. This triumvirate shaped the organization until the First World War—Hill as member of the