Sir henry rawlinson biography of donald

  • In the brief outline of hie life dictated by Sir Henry to an ama- nueneie occurs the following short entry under the year lt ' Cloee of the Affghan War.
  • Nominally, the book is a biography of Rawlinson, with a strong focus on the period he spent in Iran (or Persia, as it was called then) and Iraq.
  • He became consul general at Baghdad () and succeeded the archaeologist Henry Austen Layard in the work of obtaining ancient sculptures for the museum.

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    The Curated Links at 3QD *

    by Ali Minai

    I came to Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins (Thomas Dunne Books, ) because inom was looking to read about Henry Rawlinson – someone inom had wondered about and admired for a long time. Copying the immense and inaccessible trilingual cuneiform inscription of Bisitun, and then working to decipher not one but three ancient languages from virtually nothing were feats fit more for legend and story than reality. But Rawlinson was real and, if anything, even more remarkable than my limited knowledge of his accomplishments had suggested. Nominally, the book is a biography of Rawlinson, with a strong focus on the period he spent in Iran (or Persia, as it was called then) and Iraq (then under Ottoman rule). But, in fact, it is the story of a Great Adventure that completely revolutionized our knowledge of human history in ways that is almost beyond imagination for us in the 21st century. And it is

  • sir henry rawlinson biography of donald

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    List of the RAS Collections of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson ()

    to “Lieut. Rawlinson”. The RH corner of the first page has been torn away including the date and place of writing but it seems from the contents to have been written in Persia. About military and political affairs in that country. The back of the letter is covered in pencilled notes of dates in ancient history, apparently in HCR’s handwriting. [II/02(01)].

    • Letter from MM Anderson dated Ishapoor [now Ishapore, outside Calcutta, the site of an ordnance factory since ] June 14 [at the beginning] and June 13 [at the end] to “My dear Rawlinson”. Probably written in the ’s. Retails gossip about various mutual acquaintances and looks forward to their meeting soon.
    • “Statement of the claims of Major H C Rawlinson … against the Persian Government Teheran July 31st [?]” [II/02(03)].
    • Copies of 9 letters by HCR regarding the destruction by fire of his papers relating to the Candahar Political Agency (mostly requesting substi

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      Dictionary of National Biography, /Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke

      &#;RAWLINSON, Sir HENRY CRESWICKE (–), Assyriologist, born at Chadlington, Oxford, on 11 April , sprang from an old north Lancashire family, and was the second son of Abram Rawlinson, a noted breeder of racehorses, who married a Gloucestershire lady, Miss Creswicke, and, selling his Lancashire property, bought the house at Chadlington in Educated at Wrington and Ealing, Rawlinson was nominated to a military cadetship in the East India Company's service, and had the good fortune to set sail for Bombay in July , round the Cape, in the same fartyg as the governor, Sir John Malcolm [q. v.], the well-known diplomatist and oriental scholar, whose stimulating influence revealed itself in Rawlinson's later studies. He quickly distanced all competitors in the acquisition of Persian and the Indian vernaculars, and in less than a year was appointed interpreter, and, before he was nineteen, paymaster to the 1st Bombay grenadiers,