Archive of personal papers, family memorabilia, sermons, offprints and minor publications and a large number of photographs

Item author: Canon HDR Rawnsley
Item date: 1880 - 1920
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 3,000
Item date acquired: 1996
Item institution: Cumbria Archive Service
Town/City: Kendal
County: Cumbria

Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust and an important figure in the early history of landscape conservation, also founding the Lake District Defence Society. The photograph collection includes one of Rawnsley with Rupert Potter and his daughter Beatrix, illustrated at p.18 of AR

Item Provenance
Bought from Rawnsleys widow in the 1950s by unrecorded buyer