Keswick Museum and Art Gallery District was bought for £160 for the Trustees of the Keswick Museum. 1882 Fitz Park Trust formed with the intention of providing space for the use of inhabitants of Keswick and its neighbourhood, and the visitors thereto, as a pleasure ground and a place of recreation. 1884 Canon Rawnsley, Vicar of Crosthwaite founds the Keswick School of Industrial Art 1886 Mr John Postlethwaite replaced Dr Knight as Honorary Curator of the Museum. 1887 Fitz Park was opened to the public with support from Henry and Thomas Hewetson. 1895 The National Trust was founded by Canon Rawnsley, Octavia Hill and Robert
Brenda Rawnsley 1939, she enlisted in the ATS Officer Cadet training unit, but soon left to work for the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London. Through mutual friends she met Flt Lt Derek Rawnsley, who had made history by flying solo in a Tiger Moth from Australia to Oxford. In 1937 Lt Rawnsley had founded the Federal Union Movement with Charles Kimber and Patrick Ransome, seeking the unification of Europe to avoid war. Hugh-Jones and Rawnsley were married in February 1941, but he was immediately posted overseas in the RAF. By the end of 1941, Mrs Rawnsley was a Women's Auxiliary Air