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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Rawlinson | | | First Name(s) | Henry Creswicke | | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir, Baronet | | | Birth Year | 1810 | | | Death Year | 1895 | | | Entry | Born April n, 1801, son of Abram Tyzack Rawlinson : educated at Wrington and Ealing : went to Bombay in the E. I. Co.'s military service, 1827, Sir John Malcolm (q.v.) being a fellow-passenger : learnt Persian and the vernaculars : served in Persia, to discipline the Persian troops, 1833-9 : Political Assistant to Sir W. Macnaghten at Kabul : Political Agent at Kandahar : at the battle there, May 29, 1842 : with Nott retired to India via Kabul : C.B. : Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, 1843 : Consul-General at Bagdad, 1844 : deciphered the Persian cuneiform inscription of Darius Hystaspes at Behistun, 1846 : made great explorations and excavations in Babylonia and adjacent countries : returned to England, 1855 : K.C.B., 1856 : Lt-Colonel : Director of the E. I. Co. : M.P. for Reigate, 1858 : Member of the Council of India. 1858-9 : Minister to Persia, 1859-60 : M.P. for Frome, 1865-8 : Member, again, of the Council of India from 1868 for the rest of his life : G.C.B., 1889 : Baronet, 1891 : President of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1878-81, and its Director, 1862- 95 : President of the Geographical Society, 1871-2, and 1874-5 : and of the Oriental Congress in London, 1874 : D.C.L. : LL.D. of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and a Member of several Foreign Academies : Trustee of the British Museum : died March 5, 1895 : wrote constantly in the Royal Asiatic Society's loumal and for the Geographical Society, on Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, Turkistan, Central Asia : also in the periodical reviews : and published England and Russia in the East, 1875, expressing his pronounced views on Russian policy and action in Central Asia. |
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