Sometimes, Becky and Rawdon buy time from their creditors by suggesting Rawdon received money in Miss Crawley's will or are being paid a stipend by Sir Pitt.

Marrying Rawdon Crawley in secret was a mistake, as was running off instead of begging Miss Crawley's forgiveness.

Sir Pitt has two sons, the pompous and pedantic elder son ( Douglas Hodge ), who also bears the name Pitt Crawley, and the dashing younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley ( James Purefoy ).

By a twist of fate Rawdon dies weeks before his older brother, whose son has already died ; the baronetcy descends to Rawdon's son.

Had he outlived his brother by even a day he would have become Sir Rawdon Crawley and Becky would have become Lady Crawley, a title she uses anyway in later life.

After Rawdon finds out the truth and leaves Becky for an assignment overseas, he leaves his son to be brought up by his brother Sir Pitt and his wife Lady Jane.

Then he finds she is already secretly married to his second son, Rawdon Crawley.

How she will bequeath her great wealth is a source of constant conflict between the branches of the Crawley family who vie shamelessly for her affections ; initially her favourite is Sir Pitt's younger son, Captain Rawdon Crawley.

The couple lives mostly on credit, and while Rawdon seems to be too dim-witted to be aware of the effect of his borrowing on the people around him, Becky is fully aware that her heavy borrowing and her failure to pay bills bankrupts at least two innocent people: her servant, Briggs, whose life savings Becky borrows and fritters away, and her landlord Raggles, who was formerly a butler to the Crawley family and who invested his life savings in the townhouse that Becky and Rawdon rent ( and fail to pay for ).

Rawdon and Becky's son is left in the care of Pitt Crawley and Lady Jane.

She also fails to manipulate Miss Crawley through Rawdon so as to obtain an inheritance.

Rawdon, the younger of the two Crawley sons, is an empty-headed cavalry officer who is his wealthy aunt's favourite until he marries Becky Sharp, who is of a far lower class.

In her efforts to advance herself, she manages to link up with a number of gentlemen: the Marquis of Steyne ( Cedric Hardwicke ), Joseph Sedley ( Nigel Bruce ), Rawdon Crawley ( Alan Mowbray ), and George Osborne ( G. P. Huntley Jr ).

* Alan Mowbray as Rawdon Crawley

* Conway Tearle as Rawdon Crawley

In London, Becky begins to see Captain Rawdon Crawley.

Becky refuses, revealing that she's already secretly married to Captain Rawdon Crawley.

Becky and Rawdon live in an apartment in London, and Becky reveals that she's pregnant, and suggests that the baby may help to reconcile them with Miss Crawley.

Several years pass, Miss Matilda Crawley and Sir Pitt Crawley have died, leaving the family fortune in the hands Sir Pitt, Jr. Rawdon and Becky reconcile with the family, but it does little to help their finances.

He replies: the new baronet, Sir Rawdon Crawley ( Robert Pattinson ), Becky's son.

* James Purefoy – Colonel Rawdon Crawley

Sir Pitt has by this time inherited their father's estate, leaving Rawdon destitute.

She and Rawdon obtain credit by tricking everyone around them into believing they are receiving money from others.

Haworth primary school on Rawdon Road is the only school in the village and takes children from age 3 to 11.

The Rawdon Township was settled by loyalists from South Carolina whose lives had been saved in the Siege of Ninety-Six by Lord Rawdon and the 84th Regiment of Foot.

Patrick Brontë met his wife Maria Branwell ( they met in Rawdon, some dozen or so miles away from Hartshead ) in 1811 whilst he was parson of St Peter's Church.

He represented his school in these sports and played football for amateur teams from Rawdon and Horsforth.

Graeme Coulson, a coach from Rawdon, recognised Milner's talent and persuaded him to play for Rawdon in several tournaments, including a tournament at Rawdon Meadows, where Milner scored four goals in their victory in the final.

Bath Street has a row of Classical-style houses called Rawdon Terrace dating from the time that the town was a spa in the 1820s.

She became governess to the Sidgwicks, the Stonegappes, and the Lotherdales where she worked for several months in 1839, then with Mrs White, at Upperhouse House, Rawdon, from March to September 1841.

Rawdon also provided the town with its first public water supply, flowing from a statue known as the " Samaritan Woman ".

In a series of articles, Edward Milowicki and Robert Rawdon Wilson, building upon Bakhtin ’ s theory, have argued that Menippean is not a period-specific term, as many Classicists have claimed, but a term for discursive analysis that instructively applies to many kinds of writing from many historical periods including the modern.

Francis Edward Rawdon, Marquess of Hasting, Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823.

After nearly a month Greene became aware that reinforcements under Lord Rawdon were approaching from Charleston.

The Rawdon family descended from Francis Rawdon ( d. 1668 ), of Rawdon, Yorkshire.

He was created Baron Rawdon, of Rawdon, in the County of York, in his own right in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1783, ten years before inheriting the earldom from his father.

One Stirling pilot, Flight Sergeant Rawdon Middleton, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valour on the night of November 28 – 29, 1942 when despite serious face wounds from shell-fire during a raid on Turin and loss of blood, he brought the damaged aircraft back towards southern England, with fuel nearly exhausted his crew were ordered to bail out.

Rawdon leaves his wife and through the offices of the Marquis of Steyne is made Governor of Coventry Island to get him out of the way, but Rawdon challenges the elderly marquis to a duel.

His father was Hastings George Fitzhardinge Berkeley, a captain in the Royal Navy and illegitimate son of George Lennox Rawdon Berkeley, 7th Earl of Berkeley ( 1827 – 1888 ).

Rawdon succeeded his father in the baronetcy in February 1724, aged three.

She also uses her feminine wiles to distract men at card parties while Rawdon cheats them blind.

The former local colliery, Rawdon Colliery, also bore a Hastings family name.

The regiment also took part in number of battles under the command of Lord Cornwallis between 1780-81, as well as taking part in another engagement near Camden in April 1781, as part of a force under the command of General Rawdon.

Although the meeting at Rawdon demonstrated the support that the NA was building up amongst far right activists it also helped to bring about the groups destruction.