Wood engraver, painter in oil and teacher, born in Liverpool, where he attended the City School of Art, 1929–35. He held the Senior City Art Travelling Scholarship, 1932, studying widely on the continent. Rawlinson was in the Royal Air Force in 1941–6, as an Official War Artist in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, 1943–4, and in England, 1945–6. The Air Ministry commissioned 14 oil paintings depicting the history of radar. Plants and cats were among his own favourite subjects. Rawlinson began teaching in Liverpool in 1935. Among other appointments was one as an inspector of schools, and he was finally head of art at Stratford-upon-Avon High School for Girls, 1966–77. Rawlinson was a member of SWE from 1972, showing at RA, RBA, RE, RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and Paris Salon, where he won Gold and Silver Medals for engraving.