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Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley: an extraordinary life, 1851–1920 by Michael Allen and Rosalind Rawnsley, Essendon, New Beaver Press, 2023, xxxvii + 436 pp., footnotes, bibliography, index, illustrations, £35.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-7392-1940-6; £20.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-17392-1941-3 Malcolm Tozer Published online: 09 Mar 2023 https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2023.2184504 Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley is best known today as one of the three founders of the National Trust – alongside Octavia Hill and Robert Hunter – and for his protection of the Lake District from unregulated despoliation by railway lines, industrial works and the closing of footpaths and bridleways.

These notable achievements are but two that would have been cited at the time of his death a century ago, from a long list that then would have included Church of England canon and royal chaplain, social reformer and activist for public health, tireless campai