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Philip Rashleigh (1729–1811)

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from his cabinet (1797 and 1802). In the same collection are models in glass of the hailstones that fell on 20 October 1791, particulars of which, with the figured representations, are given, on Rashleigh's information, in King's
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on 21 January 1765, sitting continuously, in spite of contests and election petitions, until the dissolution of 1802, by which time he was known as the "
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1891–3, Rashleigh of Menabilly
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at Polridmouth, near the family seat. In 1791 and 1792, Rashleigh sold 41 specimens from his collection to the Austrian collector
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as the work of an "amateur in antiquarianism". A paper by him on certain "alluvial deposits" at Sandrycock, Cornwall, is in the
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He married his first cousin, Jane Pole (1720–1795), only daughter of the Rev. Carolus Pole, 3rd son of Sir John Pole of
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Rashleigh's collection of minerals was remarkable for its various specimens of tin. Much is on display at the
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Nichols, Lit. Illustrations, viii. 564; Numismatic Chronicle, new ser. vol. viii. 137–57; Trans.
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treasure, which still gives its name to the "Trewhiddle style" of 9th century decoration.
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Information about Raab is included in section 9, about the catalogue of her collection
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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, vol.1
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Mineralogical Record gallery of illustration of the Rashleigh collection
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A portrait of Rashleigh, seated in a chair, was painted by
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fowey
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
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Addit. MS. 28541, f. 196. He constructed a remarkable
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and a Cornish squire. He collected and published the
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Index


John Opie
Royal Cornwall Museum
Mineralogy
Geology

Cornish chough
FRS
FSA
Menabilly
Fellow of the Royal Society
Trewhiddle
Anglo-Saxon
Aldermanbury
Jonathan Rashleigh
Fowey
Sir William Clayton, 1st Baronet
Woldingham

New College, Oxford
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Menabilly
Fowey
elected member
Fowey
Father of the House of Commons
mineralogy
Society of Antiquaries
Fellow of the Royal Society
John Opie

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