John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf

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– 1547

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Who was John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf?

John Rawson, 1st and only Viscount Clontarf was an English-born statesman in sixteenth-century Ireland, who was regarded as one of the mainstays of English rule there. He was the last Prior of the Kilmainham house of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; this was a fighting order and Rawson himself was an experienced soldier who took part in the Siege of Rhodes.

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1547

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on July 23, 2013

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