Thomas Rawlinson
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Who is Thomas Rawlinson?
Thomas Rawlinson was an 18th-century English industrialist who is widely reputed, though not without controversy, to have been the inventor of the modern kilt.
Very little is easily found about Thomas Rawlinson himself, even his vital dates. He is described in nearly all accounts as being an Englishman and a Quaker who went to the Highlands in the aftermath of the suppression of the 1715 Jacobite uprising in order to establish an iron works.
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