[Joseph Rawson]. English clergyman and writer of ecclesiastical history, born at Stanningley, Yorkshire; graduated in the first class of the classical tripos from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1858; elected a fellow and soon after a lecturer in his own college; appointed Norrisonian professor of divinity at Cambridge in 1879, and was one of the founders of the Early English Text Society. He published, for the Pitt Press, Bacon’s Life of Henry VII.; More’s Utopia; and books 3 and 4 of Beda’s Ecclesiastical History; wrote a History of the Creeds, and published, in 1893, the Cambridge Companion to the Bible. He contributed to this Encylopædia. He died on the 21st of November 1895.
