About Charles Rawlins
Lived 1846 – 1918 (aged 72). Charles Rawlins was a New Zealand politician.
Charles Champion Rawlins (13 April 1846 – 10 July 1918) was a 19th-century Conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand for just over a year.
Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 13 April 1846, Rawlins was a mining engineer. He arrived in New Zealand in 1875.
Rawlins stood in the Tuapeka electorate in the ; of the four candidates, he came second, beaten by Vincent Pyke. In the , he stood in the same electorate but was beaten by William Larnach. He won the Tuapeka electorate in a by-election on 2 November after William Larnach committed suicide; and lost it in the 1899 general election, on 15 November 1899.
Rawlins died at Riverton on 10 July 1918, and was buried at Riverton Cemetery.
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Charles Rawlins was born on 13 April 1846.
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