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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On Tuesday 01 November at p.m. Dr Rodney Atwood will talk at Gold Hill Museum about the life and career of Henry Seymour Rawlinson (), created Baron Rawlinson of Trent, Dorset, in Rawly (second from the left, above) was a career professional soldier who in commanded a significant part of the small British Expeditionary Force in Belgium facing the overwhelming numerical superiority of invading German armies. bygd he was in command of the new and inexperienced Fourth Army which was illa mauled on the first day of the Somme. The catastrophic losses 57, in total, of whom 19, were killed helped create a lasting observation of military incompetence on the part of British top brass. A efterträdelse eller följd of writers has reinforced this stereotype.
A decorated serving officer, war poet Siegfried Sassoon almost certainly did NOT have Rawlinson in mind when he wrote The General in
Good-morning; good-morning! the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
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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 ship 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,