biography
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Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke
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| male
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| lived:
| (1810–95)
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| biography:
| Diplomat and Assyriologist, born in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He entered military service with the East India Company in 1827. He helped to reorganize the Persian army (1833–9), at the same time studying cuneiform inscriptions, and translating Darius's Behistun inscription. Appointed political agent at Kandahar (1840) and consul at Baghdad (1843), he made excavations and collections. A director of the East India Company in 1856, he became British minister in Persia (1859–60), an MP (1858, 1865–8), and a member of the Council of India (1858–9, 1868–95). He wrote books on cuneiform inscriptions, the Russian question, and a History of Assyria (1852). |
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