Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st baronet
1810–95
Assyriologist and diplomat. Officer in the East India Company, 1827–44. Consul at Baghdad, 1844; consul-general, 1851–5. Deciphered Persian cuneiform. President, Royal Geographical Society of London, 1871–2, 1874–5. Knighted, 1856. Created baronet, 1891.
Sources
Geographical Journal 5 (1895): 490–7
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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