Charles Rawlins

{{Short description|New Zealand politician}}

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Charles Champion Rawlins (13 April 1846 – 10 July 1918) was a 19th-century Conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand for just over a year.

Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 13 April 1846, Rawlins was a mining engineer. He arrived in New Zealand in 1875.{{cite book |editor1-last=Scholefield |editor1-first=Guy H. | editor2-last=Schwabe | editor2-first=E. |title=Who's Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific |year=1908 |publisher=Gordon & Gotch |location=Wellington |page=141}}

Rawlins stood in the Tuapeka electorate in the {{NZ election link|1893}}; of the four candidates, he came second, beaten by Vincent Pyke.{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1893 |year=1894 |publisher=National Library |url= http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1894-I.2.3.2.21 |access-date=19 November 2013 |page=3}} In the {{NZ election link|1896}}, he stood in the same electorate but was beaten by William Larnach.{{cite news |title=Otago |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS18961223.2.28.16 |access-date=6 January 2014 |work=Auckland Star |date=23 December 1896 |volume=XXVII |issue=305 |page=6}} He won the Tuapeka electorate in a by-election on 2 November {{By-election link year|Tuapeka|1898}} after William Larnach committed suicide; and lost it in the 1899 general election, on 15 November 1899.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page=228}}

Rawlins died at Riverton on 10 July 1918, and was buried at Riverton Cemetery.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ST19180712.2.13 | title=Deaths | date=12 July 1918 | work=The Southland Times | access-date=17 January 2016 | page=4}}