Comments on: Rawlence Road, Salisbury and Rawlence Road, Wilton http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/streetnames/rawlence-road-salisbury-sp2-rawlence-road-wilton-sp2 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Simon Rawlence http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/streetnames/rawlence-road-salisbury-sp2-rawlence-road-wilton-sp2#comment-16815 Simon Rawlence Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:51:53 +0000 http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/?p=320#comment-16815 Ian apologies it has been a while since I visited this site. yes spot on, one and the same. I did not know that he had been Chairman of WCC. He was a retired Indian Army officer with private means. He never let his investments get above 100,000 pounds, which he considered sufficient for his needs. Any excess he gave away, in the process buying up land for the park and school in Lower Bemerton and giving it a heavy endowment for its upkeep still worth a substantial sum today and land for the school in Highbury Avenue. These are the only ones that I have been involved with. As Mayor together with my Grandmother, his sister in law, he was the focus of the local celebrations for the coronation in 1937. Ian apologies it has been a while since I visited this site. yes spot on, one and the same. I did not know that he had been Chairman of WCC. He was a retired Indian Army officer with private means. He never let his investments get above 100,000 pounds, which he considered sufficient for his needs. Any excess he gave away, in the process buying up land for the park and school in Lower Bemerton and giving it a heavy endowment for its upkeep still worth a substantial sum today and land for the school in Highbury Avenue. These are the only ones that I have been involved with. As Mayor together with my Grandmother, his sister in law, he was the focus of the local celebrations for the coronation in 1937.

]]> By: Ian Collins http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/streetnames/rawlence-road-salisbury-sp2-rawlence-road-wilton-sp2#comment-8890 Ian Collins Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:32:15 +0000 http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/?p=320#comment-8890 Simon Can you identify for me, Major M Rawlence DSO, who was, I believe, Chairman of Wilts County Council during WW2? Was he the same Maurice Rawlence tat you mentioned above? Ian Simon

Can you identify for me, Major M Rawlence DSO, who was, I believe, Chairman of Wilts County Council during WW2?
Was he the same Maurice Rawlence tat you mentioned above?

Ian

]]> By: Simon Rawlence http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/streetnames/rawlence-road-salisbury-sp2-rawlence-road-wilton-sp2#comment-8824 Simon Rawlence Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:58:26 +0000 http://salisburyandstonehenge.net/?p=320#comment-8824 Just to fill in a few gaps to the comprehensive information above. in fact 2 Rawlences lived either side of the road named after them in Wilton. James Rawlence who lived in Bulbridge House and his son Edward living in The Chantry. The Rawlences were tenant farmers of the Wilton Estate farmimg Bulbridge Farm, land on which later Rawlence Road was built. In 1853 James Rawlence founded a surveying and land agency business that eventually became Rawlence and Squarey and then Humberts. He was Mayor of Wilton and a local benefactor. Rawlence Road Salisbury was named after Maurice Rawlence, grandson of the above James and Mayor of Salisbury in 1937. Leonard and Guy were in fact the sons of Edward Rawlence and both had a local connection. Leonard having the UK disributorship for Oldsmobile based on Churchfields and raced against the greats Massimo Ferrari etc in the gand prix of the 1920s. Guy was an author and lived in Wishford House. Just to fill in a few gaps to the comprehensive information above. in fact 2 Rawlences lived either side of the road named after them in Wilton. James Rawlence who lived in Bulbridge House and his son Edward living in The Chantry. The Rawlences were tenant farmers of the Wilton Estate farmimg Bulbridge Farm, land on which later Rawlence Road was built. In 1853 James Rawlence founded a surveying and land agency business that eventually became Rawlence and Squarey and then Humberts. He was Mayor of Wilton and a local benefactor.

Rawlence Road Salisbury was named after Maurice Rawlence, grandson of the above James and Mayor of Salisbury in 1937.

Leonard and Guy were in fact the sons of Edward Rawlence and both had a local connection. Leonard having the UK disributorship for Oldsmobile based on Churchfields and raced against the greats Massimo Ferrari etc in the gand prix of the 1920s. Guy was an author and lived in Wishford House.

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