Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, Founder of National Trust

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• Career: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwicke_Rawnsley http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/rawnsley-thou-shouldst-be-living-at-this-hour-1610966.html
• Life Story: Hardwick Drummond Rawnsley, born at Shiplake on-Thames September 25/1851. With him was born a twin sister, Frances who lived to a great age, dying in the early years of World War II. When eleven years old, Hardwicke entered Uppingham School in Rutlandshire of which his Godfather, Edward Thring, was Headmaster; and in 1870 went on to Balliol, Oxford taking his degree in Natural Science in 1874. He then entered Holy Orders and vas ordained Deacon in Gloucester Cathedral in 1875. After serving two years in Bristol, he was offered by his cousin of Wray Castle on Lake Windermere, Westmorland, the living at the village of Wray, which he accepted and was ordained Priest at Carlisle Cathedral on December 23/1877. On January 29/1878 he married at Brathay, Edith Fletcher of a well-to-do coal owning family who lived at The Croft Ambleside, Lake Windermere, with whom he had sometimes stayed. She was a gifted artist, very shy but vigorous. An album of her water-colour sketches dated from 1860 to 1910, now in her grand-daughter Una's possession, show a perfection of detail combined with overall effect that is now rarely met with. In 1879 they set out with four friends on a six months trip to Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, travelling over the desert by camel and elsewhere on horseback, returning to England via Cyprus, Greece and Constantinople. It proved an illuminating adventure and Hardwicke later lectured on their experiences. On December 14/1880 their son Noel was born in Wray Vicarage. He was their only child. In 1883 the Bishop of Carlisle bestowed on Hardwick the living of Crosthwaite at Keswick on Derwentwater, Cumberland, the vicarage becoming his home for the next 34 years. In 1893, he was made honorary Canon of Carlisle. Canon Rawnsley was a remarkable man, enterprisingly public-spirited not only in his own parish but over the countryside. His wife shared his enthusiasm and founded the Keswick School of Industrial Arts, originally to keep young working men out of the pubs, but ultimately it became a permanent institution and still exists. Edith herself supervised the teaching of metal-working. What soon brought Hardyicke into prominence were the many battles he fought to prevent the beauties of the Lake District from desecration by railroads and the ruthless destruction of old bridges and other picturesque landmarks. In this struggle he grew to be a national figure and it was he who inspired and was a co-founder of the National Trust in 1893, remaining its Honorary Secretary for the rest of his life. In gratitude, the people of the Lake District by public subscription acquired a large tract of land on Derwentwater embracing Friar's Crag, Lord's Island and a part of Great Wood which they presented to the National Trust "In honour of Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley." He was a man of cheerful disposition and ready wit, given to sprinkling his personal correspondence with amusing verses. He travelled widely and was the author of many books, notably about the historic and scenic interest of the Lake District, including one volume of serious poems. In 1896 he was asked by one of the London newspapers to attend the coronation of Csar Nicholas II in Moscow; and he and his wife Edith were honoured guests at the ceremonies. Two years later they spent five weeks in U.S.A., visiting various Eastern colleges. Feeling the need in 1907 of a quiet refuge, they bought the little holding of "Dunnabeck" in Grasmere, a cottage and a few fields lying high up on the Eastern Fell with a beautiful outlook over Rydal Water. They made the house and garden as perfect as possible and for the next nine years "Dunnabeck" brought a feeling of peace and restfulness into their hurried lives. There, too, their grand-children frequently came to visit them and romped with them over the fells. In 1909 Hardwicke was made Second Canon of Carlisle, and in 1912 Chaplain to the King in recognition of his lifework. From 1909 until his death he spent three months of each year in residence at the Abbey and the remaining nine months at Crosthwaite. He was now past sixty and felt the time near for giving up his work at Crosthwaite. However the outbreak of World War I in 1914 made him reluctant. Then in 1915 came on opportunity to purchase "Allan Bank" at Grasmere, a house standing high on an out-jutting spur between the lake and Easdale, with fields running down to the water and woods rising to the fells. It was just such a home as they had long dreamed of. Wordsworth had lived there in 1808-11; Coleridge. de Quincy and other famous men had foregathered in its studio. By the end of Summer, they owned it and in the following year made it ready to be their home. Sadly, however Edith contracted influenza and died in Carlisle December 31/1916. Without her, he felt he could not carry on at Crosthwaite and preached his last sermon there at Easter, retiring in May to Allan Bank. He continued, however, his Autumn term at Carlisle Cathedral. On June 1/l918, he married a long-time friend Eleanor Simpson whose parental home and fields, "The Wray", lay next to "Allan Bank". She and her two sisters had known the Rawnsleys since girlhood and had travelled with them in Europe. In the months after their quiet wedding they journeyed around England; and in the Spring of 1920 visited Provence and the battlefields of Northern France. On their return to England, his health began to flag and he died at Allan Bank on May 29/1920. Eleanor, who survived him many years, proved a devoted biographer and her interesting book "Canon Rawnsley" was published in 1923. Most of these notes on his life are taken from it. After her death in the late 1950's at Allan Bank, the house was presented to the National trust. It contains a beautiful Della Robbia "Annunciation" about 5' x 3'. which Hardwicke brought back from Italy before the Italian Government stopped the export of art treasures. http://www.antonymaitland.com/hanbry01.htm#_Toc174202200
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• .: Allan Bank, Grassmere; Information from the National Trust: 'In 1915 the house was bought by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. He was a fierce defender of the Lake District countryside, always ready to battle or bully a committee, and challenging and defying the builders of bungalows and railways. He crusaded hotly for the formation of a National Trust - an ambition he achieved in 1895, together with Miss Octavia Hill, a social reformer, and Sir Robert Hunter, a lawyer. When he died, Rawnsley bequeathed the house to the National Trust. However, his wife Eleanor continued to live at Allan Bank after his death.' http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/things-to-see-and-do/page-2/view-page/item683696/250157/
• Census: 1881, ? Vicarage; Hardwicke D. Rawnsley, Head, mar, 30, Vicar of Wray, Oxfordshire Whipsnade Edith Rawnsley, wife, mar, 35, Lancashire Bolton le Moors Noel Hardwicke Rawnsley, son, 4mo, Lancashire Wray Margaret Naylor, servant, unm, 26, House Parlour Maid, Westmorland Windermere Agnes Nicholson, servant, unm, 35, Cook, Lancashire Winnick Harriet Hall, servant, unm, 18, Nurse, Lincolnshire East Keat Sarah Eliza Thring, Visitor, unm, 24, Rutland Uppingham Margaret Susan Thring, Visitor, unm, 22, Rutland Uppingham
• .: 1895; FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL TRUST: Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley was vicar of Crosthwaite and founder of the Lake District Defence Society in 1883. With Octavia Hill and Robert Hunter, he was one of the three founders of the National Trust
• Probate: 21 Sep 1920, London ; RAWNSLEY the reverend canon Hardwicke Drummond of Allan Bank Grassmere Westmorland clerk died 28 May 1920 Probate London 21 September to the Public Trustee. Effects £60511 8s. 9d.

Hardwicke — Edith Fletcher. Edith was born 1845 or 1846; died 31 Dec 1916, The Abbey, Carlisle. [Group Sheet]

Hardwicke married Eleanor Foster Simpson Apr - Jun 1918, Kendal, Westmorland. Eleanor (daughter of William Frederick Simpson and Harriette Abby Elliott) was born Oct - Dec 1873, Kensington; was christened 3 Jan 1874, St Mary's, West Brompton, Middlesex; died 29 Apr 1959, The Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. [Group Sheet]

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• Life Story: Noel Rawnsley, b 1880, only child of Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley and Edith Fletcher was born at the Wray Vicarage, Grasmere, December 14/1880. His father hoped that he, too, would enter the Church, but he had other ideas. After his schooling at Rugby, instead of going on to Oxford he joined on an archaeological expedition to Egypt under the leadership of W.M. Flinders Petrie, the famous Egyptologist who in 1903-5 discovered the earthwork city of the Hyksos on the Nile delta. On his return to England, he married Violet Hilton Cutbill, one of a family of eight who lived at Ruxley, Foots Cray, Kent. The Cutbills were originally a French Huguenot family of the name de Quetteville. Violet's father Arthur Cutbill worked in the City of London in a tea importing or brokerage firm. Noel's daughter Una recalls that "Arthur commuted daily from Sidcup station with a "nosegay" in his button-hole and a jaunty whistle on his lips. Violet's mother was a Hilton and her mother a Key, rather a beauty it was said. Somewhere there was a relationship with General Gordon of Khartoum ("Chinese Gordon") whose aged brother I addressed as "Uncle" when - during my early childhood I visited him, seated in his bath-chair, at Bexhill-on-sea. "Ruxley" was a pleasant home where the sun always shone in ones memory; horses and fierce little ponies in the stables, Jersey cows in the meadows below the house who licked ones hands with rough tongues and breathed deliciously scented warm breath into ones face; a place where bees were kept along one perilous vegetable-garden path, (a good place to close ones eyes and race past); an orchard with roaming sheep that one could chase and where rather frightening pigs rooted about. Adjoining the back garden was a wood where silver birch and ferns spread a delicious shade and a child could wander along mossy paths and come by surprise upon a rabbit. Now all this is buried beneath a huge highway and busy intersection with traffic lights and endless streams of trucks going in and out of London. Arthur Cutbill, the presiding spirit over the place with all the tall Uncles and Aunts of various degrees of popularity in a child's mind, had disposition of immeasurable sweetness and never in anyone's memory had been heard to utter a discourteous or unkind word." For a while after their marriage, Noel and Violet lived at Staines, Middlesex, where their daughter Una was born; then moved to Seven Oaks, Kent, where three sons were born, - Conrad Franklin, David Willingham and Derek Lincoln. Meanwhile Noel had built himself a new house "Weald Height" - a gift from his father the Canon, - near lovely Knowle Park at Seven 0aks, - which stood on the downs with a magnificent view over the whole Weald of Kent. His youngest son Derek was the only one born at "Weald Height", in 1911, but it was also the well-remembered home of his brothers and sister from early childhood. On marrying, Noel had settled down to the creation of a machine printing-press which was to print just as beautiful as the hand presses. It was a revolt against the Ruskin School in which he had been raised. The type he designed himself; he ground his own ink to be sure of its quality; and he had rag paper specially made by Portals. The Beaver Press, as it was called, was considered to it out the best printing done at that tine in England. Just when it started to pay its way, World War I broke out and Noel immediately joined up in the first expeditionary force to France as an assistant to Sir Alfred Kerr's Red Cross Service. In his absence, the Beaver Press had to be sold to pay off debts. While in France, Noel succeeded in getting into active service by joining the Royal Engineers Signal Corps as a dispatch rider. Presently, however, he was invalided out having contracted pleurisy in the terrible conditions of the 1916 Winter. After recovering, he went to work as an overseer for Swan Hunter, Wigham & Richardson, ship-builders on Tyneside, who were turning out destroyers. That was where Noel's daughter Una saw her first ship-launching. Shortly after the war was over, Noel came into quite an inheritance from his father. He had always had a passion for horseback riding and for sailing; and the latter he was now able to indulge by buying a beautiful 40-ton cutter called the "Sorceress" in which he spent many summers cruising around England and the West Coast of France. Probably his enthusiasm engendered the spark of love for sailing and the sea which burns so brightly in his grand-daughters Diana and Jillian. Noel had always been the despair of his parents in his handling of money, and little by little his inheritance was depleted by ill-advised investments. In the late twenties, having run through his money, Noel retired with Violet to the Isle of Capri, where they built themselves a lovely little villa in which to spend their remaining days. He occupied himself experimenting with tree-growing, and later on in trying to promote World Peace, in a sense carrying on his son Derek's ideals after his death. Early in the 1950's, Noel died in their Anacapri villa, where Violet is still living in 1962. http://www.antonymaitland.com/hanbry01.htm#_Toc174202200
• Census: 1911, The Beaver Works, Weald Hights, Carters Hill, Sevenoaks; Noel H Rawnsley, Head, 30, Married 7.5 years, 3 children, Master Printer, Engineer and Contractor, Printing and Binding Trades, born Westmorland Wray Vicarage near Ambleside
• WW1 Enlistment: 12 Sep 1914; RAWNSLEY NOEL; British Red Cross Society, Royal Engineers, Civilian Volunteer, Motor Division, Lieutenant. British Expeditionary Force 1914. Victory Medal, British War Medal, 1914 Star. Address: Williams Deusens Bank Ltd, Birchin Lane EC and 14 Hanover Square

Noel married Violet Hilton Cutbill Jul - Sep 1903, Bromley, Kent. Violet was born 19 Oct 1876; died 11 Apr 1967, Anacapri, Italy. [Group Sheet]

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• Life Story: Una Rawnsley, daughter of Noel and Violet Rawnsley, was born at Staines, Middlesex, but grew up with her younger brothers at Weald Height, Seven Oaks, Kent, where she recalls riding their ponies around Knowle Castle and galloping over the long rides between ancient beech and oak trees. Riding was a Rawnsley tradition. As she put it "I never remember learning to ride; I always rode." One of Canon Rawnsley's brothers at the age of seventy, rode a horse that he bred himself in the local hunt "Point-to-Point" and won the race. At the time he was still Master of the Hounds. Una was christened by her grandfather, Canon Rawnsley, at Crosthwaite Church in Keswick, and throughout her childhood made frequent visits to him and his wife at Carlisle and their cottage "Dunnabeck". Amongst the Canon's poems as an affectionate one to her as a child. He delighted in the companionship of his grand-children and with them climbed the fells, rowed on the lake and bathed in the becks; while his wife Edith fostered their love of art. Una was especially gifted and when she grew up attended Polytechnic Art School and the Royal Academy School of Art. She also studied marble carving in Venice. Among her instructors were Jacob Epstein and Frank Calderon the famous animal artist. She exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy and Salon d'Autonne. With particular affection, she remembers the Canon's twin sister Frances who never had a day's illness and lived to 90. She was a great character, somewhat awe-inspiring to the young undergraduates who were invited to take tea on Sundays at her house in Oxford where she lived for many years with her sister Ethel. She was always most kind and financially generous to Una and her daughters in later years. In January 1926 Una married in St. Ethelburga's Church in the City of London, Anthony Henry Robert Culling Hanbury, of White Rouse, Stoke Green, Buckinghamshire, whose history is recorded elsewhere. He was then in his twenty-fourth year and a Member of the London Stock Exchange. For a while they lived in Kensington, London, where their two daughters were born, Diana on Sept.2/1927 and Jillian on August 11/1930, both being christened at St. Etherlburga's Church. In October, 1930, they moved into the country at "Derbyfield", North Warnborough, Hampshire, about 6 miles East of Basingstoke, where they enjoyed the possession of a large garden and stables for their own horses. Here, the girls became expert horsewomen, rode to hounds with their parents, and in the Summertime showed their horses. On the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Anthony joined up, becoming a Captain in the Royal Artillery; and early in 1940, Una decided to take the girls, then 13 and 10, out of England, going first to Canada where Diana was left in the Trafalgar School, Montreal (later transferring to the Riverbend School in Winnipeg) while Jillian continued on with her mother to Bermuda. There Diana joined them in 1941. Meanwhile Anthony, whose Army service had ended with the development of heart trouble, also joined the family in Bermuda early in 1941; but the separation had brought about an estrangement and after a few months he returned alone to London a divorce ensuing in 1945. In the Autumn of 1943, Diana, just turned 16, went back to school in Canada, at Branksome Hall, Toronto, Una and Jillian remaining in Bermuda until 1944 when they moved to Washington, D.C., living first with Robert Frost's daughter and then in Georgetown. For the next twelve years, Una made her home in Washington engaging in real-estate business in her own name and starting the movement to remodel the slums around Capitol Hill. As will be told presently, Diana went on from Canada to London University, while Jillian attended American schools and George Washington University. During these years, Una kept up an active interest in the Arts and in 1947, while the girls were away at school, spent several months among the Pueblo Indians of New Nexico, living in the Pueblo of San Ildefonso and studying their arts and mode of life. Realising that Washington was becoming her permanent home, she bought her own place, "The Trees", 5035 Eskridge Terrace, N.W., which is still her home. At about the same time, Una became an American citizen, Jillian later following her example in 1954; whereas Diana, whose schooling was almost entirely British, has remained a British subject. http://www.antonymaitland.com/hanbry01.htm#_Toc174202201
• Also Known As: Una Hanbury Coatsworth

Una married Anthony Henry Robert Culling Hanbury Jan 1926, St. Ethelburga's Church, City of London. Anthony was born 23 Jul 1902, 'Sunnyside', Farnham Common, Bucks; was christened St. Ethelburga's Church, City of London. [Group Sheet]

Una married Gp. Capt. Alan Coatsworth Brown, DSO, OBE, DFC, CdeG, RCAF 1956. Alan was born 9 Aug 1914, Winnipeg, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Life Story: Born at Seven Oaks, Kent, and educated at Osborne and Dartmouth Naval Academies. By making the Navy his career, he was fulfilling a frustrated ambition of his father's. After his second tour of duty on the Yangtze, he married an English girl named Elsin whom he had met while in China. During the early days of World War II, he was invalided out of the service with the rank of Commander. He then started a successful visual education service but was squeezed out by a designing partner who had obtained financial control. To recoup this disaster, Elsin started making dolls' clothing and, inspired by her success, Conrad developed a dolls' clothing factory with headquarters in Sussex which has done well. Like his father, Conrad is a keen sailing man and has taken part in many regattas. They have two daughters. http://www.antonymaitland.com/hanbry01.htm#_Toc174202200

Conrad — Elsin Little. [Group Sheet]

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• Career: Born at Seven Oaks, was educated at Westminster and Architectural College. As soon as qualified, he defied his parents and became a scenic designer and painter for the movies. During World War II, he served in the merchant service, was sunk in Winter weather and became tubercular. On recovery, he went back to the movie industry and became Art Director for Elstree Studios; then free-lanced until he was appointed Head of Technological Research for Arthur Rank. Eventually he became disgusted, threw his career overboard and turned to making Chelsea pottery, establishing an Atelier Libre whose distinctive work has became well-known for its originality and excellence. At the invitation of prominent Bahamians, and with the Governor's blessing, David later set up in Nassau the counterpart of his Chelsea enterprise to develop the native originality in pottery. He calls it "Chelsea Pottery, Bahamas" and now lives in Nassau, where he is well-known as a painter and sculptor. David married three times and has four sons by his present wife. These boys are the only bearers of the name Rawnsley, and now live in London, England, with their mother. http://www.antonymaitland.com/hanbry01.htm#_Toc174202200
• Career: David Rawnsley was a man of many parts. He was born in Sevenoaks, Kent in 1909 and on leaving school trained as an architect and engineer. In his early twenties he became involved in the film industry, and worked on many films during the thirties and forties as an art director. There are some very well-known films in his CV including 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, They Flew Alone and In Which We Serve. After the war he moved to Paris and opened a pottery there. It was in Paris that he first met Joyce Morgan, who was working in the city as a fabric designer. This was the beginning of a business relationship that was to last for many years. Back in London in 1952 David and his wife Mary started up the Chelsea Pottery in Radnor Walk, SW3. It was styled an 'open studio' - a place where any potter could come to work and learn. The pottery was run on a 'club' basis, as had been the Paris pottery. Members paid five guineas (£5.25) as an annual subscription and sixpence (2½p) an hour plus the same amount for a pound of clay. Lessons were held in the evenings for amateurs with Joyce Morgan as the main instructor. In 1959 the Rawnsleys left for the Bahamas in search of a place to start up a new pottery in the sun. They found a large 18th century town house in Nassau. Joyce Morgan joined them there, sailing from England with five huge packing cases, the contents of which included, among other things, an electric kiln. There was no suitable clay in the Bahamas, and plans were made to import it from Jamaica, but there were serious problems with transportation; the clay had to come in rickety old banana boats that were not really up to carrying the extra weight. When the first batch arrived it proved to be of inferior quality with a very high sand content, so arrangements were made to import clay from Ireland. This was good clay with very plastic qualities, but a little too white, so iron was added locally to redden it up a little. Joyce was not very happy in Nassau. She disliked the very closed community where gossip was the main interest, the climate, and particularly the termites that were eating the building. She stayed there for only five months before returning to England. After a couple of years David moved on to open yet another pottery, this time in Mexico. Mary and the children came back to London and took up residence in Radnor Walk. David re-married; his new wife was a American doctor and they lived in California with frequent trips to the Isle of Capri where his wife's mother lived. It was on a solo trip to Capri in the early seventies when David died of a heart attack California with frequent trips to the Isle of Capri where his wife's mother lived. It was on a solo trip to Capri in the early seventies when David died of a heart attack. Meanwhile, back in London, SW3, the pottery had been left in the hands of Brian Hubbard who went on to run Chelsea for nearly forty years with the help of Joyce Morgan, modeller Frank Spindler, Barbara Ross, Daphne Corke and a large number of decorators, trained in-house, who lasted for various lengths of time. The pottery is best known for its highly decorated earthenware, the colour of the pieces being achieved by the use of painting and coloured glazes - a technique that has been referred to as 'inlay and overlay'. Joyce Morgan made all her designs in a book, and would open it at an appropriate page for each piece she decorated so that she did not have to do all the thinking again. For smaller pieces she sometimes made templates from paper or card and would engrave around them. Chelsea Pottery became very popular with the rich and famous. Many leading actors would commission pieces to be given as presents to the other members of the cast at first-night parties. In the early sixties Brian met the Beatles in a television studio where they were both being interviewed. It was the day, he remembers, that they bought their famous high-collar jackets at Cecil Gee in Charing Cross Road. They stayed in contact and later Chelsea were to supply Christmas mugs for Paul McCartney for about twenty years. Trade was good, and orders were rolling in from American department stores - Lord and Taylor and Neiman Marcus amongst others. A division was set up to produce slipcast wares; Ceramic Design, Chelsea. Frank Spindler produced models from which Brian Hubbard made moulds. As well as the slipcast products, Chelsea also found a good market for hand-made models. Most were made by Frank Spindler, but other people, notably Joy Hindmarsh, took their turn to help supply the ever increasing demand. Brian Hubbard and Damon, David Rawnsley's fourth child are known to have made some of the models. Judges, barristers, surgeons and dentists were made in the largest numbers, but fishermen, golfers, mermaids and other subjects are to be found. The pottery had to move from its Radnor Walk premises in 1994 when the lease expired. Brian and Joyce desperately sought new affordable premises but had no luck. An offer was made by Moorcroft's to buy the company, but that would have meant a move to the north of England; something that neither Brian nor Joyce wanted. At the last minute a gentleman arrived out of the blue to save them. Richard Dennison bought the company and found new premises for them at nearby Ebury Mews. They occupied three stable units, installing the kilns downstairs and doing the throwing, modelling and decorating upstairs. There was haircord carpet on the floors and they laid sheets of hardboard to protect it. At this time they were as busy as they had ever been, but the market was against them. The dollar/sterling exchange rate killed all their American trade, and they found they were working harder and harder for smaller and smaller returns. The lease on the Ebury Mews premises was for only three years, and it was non-renewable. Rents and rates were rocketing, so when the time came in 1997 they called it a day and the pottery closed. http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=52
• Awards: 1947-51; Patents: 1) An improved mobile tower for supporting cameras, optical projectors or other apparatus used in the cinematographic film making industry. Production Facilities Films Lt Sep, 27 1950: GB643885 (2 citation) 643,885. Load-handling machines. PRODUCTION FACILITIES (FILMS), Ltd., RAWNSLEY, D. W., and GREEN, E. R. Oct. 20, 1947, No. 28018. [Class 78 (iii)] [Also in Group XX] A mobile tower for supporting kinematographic cameras or other optical apparatus comprises a platform 4 raised and lowered between... 2) Improved means for counterbalancing a pivoted arm or member. Production Facilities Films Lt Feb, 28 1951: GB650470 650,470. Balancing devices ; jib cranes; load - handling apparatus. PRODUCTION FACILITIES (FILMS), Ltd., RAWNSLEY, D. W., GREEN, E. R., and GILL, J. G. Feb. 13, 1948, No. 4267. [Classes 78 (ii), 78 (iii) and 78 (iv)] An unbalanced arm 1 (Fig. 2), which may be the jib of a crane is secured to a... 3) An improved mobile screen holder adapted more especially for use in the picture filmmaking industry. Production Facilities Films Lt Feb, 28 1951: GB650461 650,461. Load-handling machines; hydraulic jacks. PRODUCTION FACILITIES (FILMS), Ltd., RAWNSLEY, D. W., and GREEN, E. R. Oct. 20, 1947, No. 28021. [Class 78 (iii)] [Also in Group XX] A screen holder intended more especially for use in the picture film making industry, comprises a low wheeled truck... 4) Improvements in and relating to the steering of trucks and like wheeled vehicles. Production Facilities Films Lt Nov, 1 1950: GB645497 645,497. Vehicle steering. PRODUCTION FACILITIES (FILMS), Ltd., RAWNSLEY, D. W., GREEN, E. R., and TICEHURST, G. N. Oct. 20, 1947, No. 28019. [Classes 79 (iii) and 79 (v)] [Also in Group XXIX] A truck comprises four steerable ground wheels, each mounted for independent swivelling movements, a... 5) Improvements in and relating to frames for sustaining optical projection screens. Production Facilities Films Lt Aug, 9 1950: GB641281

David — Mary. [Group Sheet]

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• Military Service WW2: Prewar: Founder of School Prints Ltd. From The London Gazette 30 July 1940: 'The undermentioned are granted commission for the duration of hostilities as Pilot Officers on probation:- 15th July 1940. Derek Lincoln RAWNSLEY (81849) From the Special Forces Roll of Honour: Former L Detachment SAS (RAF Ground Liaison Officer), Flight Lieutenant RAFVR 70563. Served with SAS 1942 Killed in accident with 204 Group RAF. Buried at Bulawayo (Athlone) Cemetery, Zimbabwe, Grave 68 http://www.specialforcesroh.com/showthread.php?2895
• Obituary: 2 Mar 1943; 'RAWNSLEY.- In Feb., 1943, on active service, FLIGHT LIEUT. DEREK L. RAWNSLEY, R.A.F., dearly loved husband of Brenda (nee Hugh-Jones), Gezira House, Zamalek, Cairo, and youngest son of Mr & Mrs Noel Rawnsley.' (England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976)
• Obituary: 12 Mar 1943, The London Times; "Flight Lieutenant Derek L. Rawnsley who was killed on active service in February, was born at Seven Oaks and went to Summerfields Preparatory School from which he gained a King's Scholarship for Eton, and from there went on to University College, Oxford. At Eton he was Vice Captain of the Field Game and Keeper of The Wall, besides winning his place in the Eight and the Rugby XV. He was co-founder of the Public Schools magazine, "The Gate". At Oxford he had the rare distinction of being given trials for both the University Eight and the Rugby XV. He joined the University Air Squadron and passed his "A" Certificate shortly before he left. On a visit to Norway, he learned to ski, and while on a solitary ski journey to the North Cape experienced the first of the of the amazing escapes from death which characterised his career - he broke his leg and was found by a chance traveller as dark was falling, being thus saved from death from exposure. On recovering, he escorted emigrant children to the Kingsley Fairbridge Farm, Western Australia, and in 1932 bought in Australia an old "Moth" which had formerly belonged to Kingsford-Smith and with little knowledge of air navigation set out upon a solo flight back to England which ended, after many hairbreadth escapes and adventures, at Abingdon Airport near Oxford. His explanation was that, having put off his departure too long, this was the only way of arriving back at Oxford in time for term. "In 1935, he embarked upon his first independent commercial venture with the opening by Sir Philip Sassoon of a gallery for the hire of pictures by contemporary artists. In 1938, Rawnsley founded the Federal Union movement with an advisory council at the head of which stood the late Lord Lothian with Sir William Beveridge, Master of University College, Oxford. The latter writes:- "My personal contacts with him dated from the time he came to see me as one of the three young men who, by founding Federal Union in this country even before the appearance of the book by Clarence Street (who also was a member of this College) set out to stop this World War and thereafter to ensure, if possible. that it was the last of its kind. Derek Rawnsley was one of the type essential to salvation which sets out to do things because they have never been done before and because they seem impossible. Unless, after this War we have sufficient men of his type, ripened by experience and judgement, the was may prove to have been fought in vain." "Until the fall of France, when he joined the R.A.F., Rawnsley devoted his attention to an idea for civil infiltration and the organised passive and active resistance of European countries which was to have been called "Three Arrows". In his 31 years, Rawnsley had experienced more of life than many much older men. He had taken part in the toughest games at school: had ski-ed, sailed his own ship, competed in Ocean races, learned to glide in Germany and England, jackerooed on the "out-back" sheep and cattle stations in Australia, and had piloted his own aeroplane half around the world." In 1941 he married Miss Brenda Hugh-Jones and a photograph taken on their wedding day shows them both in uniform, he a typical flyer and she an exceptionally lovely girl of about 20. He left immediately after the wedding for the Mediterranean Sphere of Operations and lost his life in North Africa in February 1943 while en route to meet his bride for a period of leave together.
• Probate: 1 Nov 1943, Llandudno; RAWNSLEY Derek Lincoln of The Berkeley Berkeley-street London W.1 died 22 February 1943 on war service Probate Llandudno 22 March to Raglan Squire architect and Richard James Atkey solicitor. Effects £4525 4s.3d.

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From http://www.thepeerage.com/p42140.htm#i421394

Derek married Brenda Mary Hugh-Jones 15 Feb 1941, London. Brenda was born 31 Jul 1916, Cowley, Oxford; died 26 Jun 2007. [Group Sheet]