John Rawlinson	Cambridge University FC & Old Etonians FC 1 cap, 0 goals P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 13: A 0 100% successful 1882 disciplined: none captaincies: none minutes played: 90
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Full name	John Frederick Peel Rawlinson
Born	21 December 1860 in Avisford House, Walberton, Sussex [registered unnamed in Westhampnett, March 1861].
Baptised	16 April 1861 at Holy Trinity, Chelsea.
Census Notes	According to the 1861 census, the as yet unnamed John is the youngest of three children to Sir Christopher and Georgina Maria (née Sidebottom), living at Avisford House in Welberton in West Sussex. His father is a retired (in 1859) chief justice of the supreme court of judicature at Madras. They have eight servants.
	According to the 1871 census, John F.P. is still the youngest of three still living with their parents, living at 89 Eaton Square at Belgravia with seven servants. His father is still retired. According to his University Alumni, John was admitted to Trinity College on 11 June 1879.
	According to the 1881 census, John F.P. is lodger with the Millers while attending Trinity College in Cambridge. He is an undergraduate student of law living at 7 Bridge Street in Cambridge.
	According to the 1891 census, John is a barrister at law lodgng with the Barker family at 2 Little St. Mary's Lane in Cambridge.
	According to the 1901 census, John is a solicitor for the Kings Counsel, living at 5 Crown Office Row in the Temple area of London. According to the London Electoral Registers, John is registered at 5 Crown Office Row since 1900 until his death in 1926.
	According to the 1911 census, John is member of the King's Counsel, living with a nurse, servant and a clerk still at 5 Crown Office Row.
	Died: 14 January 1926 at 5 Crown Office Row, Temple, London, aged 65 years x days [registered in London City, March 1926]. He died in his chambers where he had been confined for ten days with pleurisy. Left £86102 3s. 9d. Buried at Brookwood Cemetery (left) in Woking, Surrey.
	Height/Weight: not known
	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & Ancestry.com
Club Career
Club(s)	Attended Eton College and then Cambridge University, earning his blue in 1882 and 1883; also turned out for the Corinthians FC in 1882
Club honours	FA Cup runners-up 1880-81, 1882-83, winners 1881-82;
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	None
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	One of seven who became the 90th players (90) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Only match	No. 14, 18 February 1882, Ireland 0 England 13, a friendly match at Knock Ground, Bloomfield, Belfast, aged 21 years 159 days.
Major tournaments	None
Team honours	None
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	None
Beyond England
In 1882 became a member of the Corinthians FC committee. Served on the FA Committee between 1885 and 1886.  He had already qualified as a barrister, called to the bar in 1884, becoming QC in 1897.  He was appointed recorder of Cambridge in 1896, before becoming the MP for Cambridge University in 1906 until his death.  He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1923. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.203.

John Rawlinson - Match History
Coach: F.A. Committee (Charles Alcock) - 1 full capx
Club: Cambridge University F.C. & Old Etonians F.C. - 1 full cap
Age 21
1	14	18 February 1882 - Ireland 0 England 13, Knock Ground, Bloomfield, Belfast	Fr	AW	Start	gk

Notes

Cambridge University Alumni

Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 11, 1879. [Yst.]
s. of [Sir] Christopher (1823), of The Lawn, Swindon, Wilts.
B. Dec. 21, 1860, at Airsford.
School, Eton. Matric. Michs. 1879; (Law Trip., 1st Class, 1882);
LL.B. 1883; LL.M. 1887; Hon. LL.D. 1920.
Hon. Fellow of Pembroke. Commissary, 1900-26;
Deputy High Steward, 1918-26.
Football (assoc.) 'blue,' 1882, 1883; played for England, 1882.
Adm. at the Inner Temple, June 18, 1881.
Called to the Bar, June 25, 1884. Q.C., 1897. Bencher, 1907.
Represented the Treasury in the inquiry after the Jameson Raid, 1896.
Recorder of Cambridge, 1898-1926.
M.P. for the University, 1906-26.
Member, General Council of the bar from its formation; later, Vice-Chairman.
Temporary Chairman of Committees, House of Commons, from 1916.
Author, Rawlinson's Municipal Corporations Acts.
Died, unmarried, Jan. 14, 1926.
Brother of Albemarle A. (1872) and Christopher (1866).
(Book of Blues; Inns of Court; Foster, Men at the Bar; Who was Who.)

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