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Admitted 17 August, 1781.

Only son of Francis Rawle, merchant, of Philadelphia. After completing his course in the Temple he returned to Philadelphia, and was elected to the legislature in 1789, and in 1791 became U. S. District Attorney. He was the first President of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, and received the degree of LL.D. from the Princeton College in recognition of the merits of his View of the Constitution of the United States, published in 1825. He died 12 April, 1836.

RAWLEY. See RALEIGH.

Admitted 28 March, 1828.

Second son of John Rawlinson of the Middle Temple and Combe in Hampshire, where he was born 10 July, 1806. He was educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge. He was called to the Bar 25 Xov. 1831. He was Recorder of Portsmouth from 1840 to 1847, when he was knighted, and made Judge in Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca. Two years later he was made Chief Justice of Madras, which position he retained till his retirement in 1859. He died in London 28 March, 1888. As an author he is known for a work on Municipal Corporations, first published in 1842.

Admitted 7 January, 1696-7.

Son and heir of Thomas Rawlinson of London, Knight and Alderman. He was called to the Bar 18 May, 1705. He acquired a precocious taste for antiquities, and spent many years in England and on the Continent collecting MSS. and rare books, which he stowed away in his chambers, till he himself was obliged to sleep in the passage. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1713, and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1724. He is supposed to have been the "Tom Folio" of Addison. His collection was sold between 1722 and 1734, and the catalogues are preserved in the Bodleian Library. His sole original publication was some verses on the death of the Duke of Gloucester, 1700.

Admitted 16 December, 1763.

Eldest son of Andrew Reed of Trenton, co. Hunterdon, New Jersey, where he was born 27 Aug. 1741. In 1767 he was Deputy-Secretary of New Jersey. He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1774, and President of the Pennsylvania Convention in 1775, and President of Pennyslvania [sic] in 1778. He died 6 Mar. 1785. He was the grandfather of Henry Reed, the well-known American scholar (d. 1854).

Admitted 14 January, 1832.

Only son of Henry Reeve, M.D., of Norwich, where he was born 9 Sept 1813. He was educated at Norwich, under Dr. Edward Valpy, and at Geneva, where he became acquainted with many of the intellectual celebrities