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Abraham Rawlinson (1738–1803) was an English politician and merchant. He came from a prominent Quaker family which traded out of the port of Lancaster. Rawlinson served as one of two Members of Parliament for Lancaster from 1780 to 1790.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Portrait of Abraham Rawlinson )〕〔 Abraham Rawlinson was the son of Thomas Hutton Rawlinson (1712–69), a West Indies merchant, and his wife Mary (née Dilworth). He took over his father's business in 1756, creating a new company Abraham Rawlinson Junr. & Co. Rawlinson was involved in the importation of mahogany, and in the slave trade. Rawlinson was painted by George Romney. The portrait was done before Rawlinson became an MP, and shows the subject holding a telescope to indicate his mercantile interests: it is currently on display in the Judges' Lodgings Museum, Lancaster.〔 The museum also has a silver cup presented to him in 1790 in gratitude for his parliamentary service.〔(George III Silver Cup and Cover ). Lancashire Museums〕 Rawlinson died 24 May 1803.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/rawlinson-abraham-1738-1803 )〕 ==MP== Rawlinson appears to have given up his membership of the Quakers by the time he became an MP, as he would otherwise not have been able to swear an oath of allegiance to the King, a requirement which excluded Quakers from parliament until the nineteenth century. In the 1780s he gave an organ to St John the Evangelist's Church, Lancaster, an Anglican church which was being enlarged at the time.〔(St. John (N01664) ), National Pipe Organ Register. BIOS〕 As an MP, he consistently opposed the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Abraham Rawlinson (1738-1803) )〕 The Slave Trade Act 1788 regulated the trade for the first time and in 1799 an Act of Parliament decreed slaving ships could only sail from Liverpool, London and Bristol, but the slave trade was not abolished until after Rawlinson's death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abraham Rawlinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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