title: Rawdon
text: # Rawdon
  
  Rawdon may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  in England
  
  * Rawdon, West Yorkshire
  * Rawdon Colliery, Leicestershire
  
  in Canada
  
  * Rawdon, Quebec
  * Rawdon, Ontario, a historic township merged since 1997 into the municipality of Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario
  * Rawdon Township, Nova Scotia, a historic township merged since 1861 into the Municipal District of East Hants
  
  ## People
  
  * The Rawdon Baronets of Moira, County Down, also Baron Rawdon and Earl Rawdon or Earl of Rawdon, as titles in the lineage of the Marquess of Hastings
     * Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754-1826), Anglo-Irish politician and military officer
     * John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira (1720-1793), Irish peer
  * James Rawdon Stansfeld (1866–1936), British army officer
  
  ### Fictional characters
  
  * Col. Rawdon Crawley and his son and namesake Sir Rawdon Crawley, characters in the 1848 novel Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  