Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Order of the Bath GCB, Fellow of the Royal Society FRS, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society FRGS, Order of the Lion and the Sun KLS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British Army officer posted to the East India Company, Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) Member of Parliament, Oriental studies Orientalist, collector of antiquities, historian, and translator. He is sometimes called the "Father of Assyriology". He was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1874 to 1875, president of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1869 to 1871 and again from 1878 to 1881, and a trustee of the British Museum from 1876 until his death. Quotes The town of Zoháb has been usually considered the representative of the city of Hulwan Holwán—but this is incorrect. The real site of Holwán, one of the eight primeval cities of the world, was at Sarpol-e_Zahab Sar-Púli-Zoháb, distant about 8 miles south of the modern town, and situated on the high road conducting from Baghdád to Kermanshah Kirmánsháh. This is the Nimrud Calah of Ashurnasirpal II Asshur, ... and the Halah of the Israelitish captivity. ... It gave to the surrounding district the name of Chalonitis, which we meet with in most of the ancient geographers. ... Isidore of Charax particularises the city, under the name of Chala, ... and the Heraclius Emperor Heraclius appears to allude to the same place as Kalchas. ... Notes on a March from Zoháb, at the Foot of Zagros, Along the Mountains to Khúzistán (Susiana), and from Thence Through the Province of Luristan to Kirmánsháh, in the Year 1836 London John Murray (publishing house) John Murray 1839 https://books.google.com/books/about/Notes_on_a_March_from_Zoháb_at_the_Foot.html?id=15-3MQAACAAJ&pg=PA35 35 (91 pages; reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1839, vol. 9, pp. 26–116; Travel Writings of H. C. Rawlinson, 258 pages, at archive.org) Whilst the seat of Semitic empire was still upon the Lower Tigris, and before the building, perhaps, either of Babylon or Nineveh, that remarkable expedition to Palestine must have taken place, which is described in Genesis, and in which are found the vassal kings of Shinar and Ellasar, ranged under the banners of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam. Outline of the History of Assyria, as collected from the inscriptions discovered by A. H. Layard in the ruins of Nineveh ... Printed from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society London John W. Parker & Son 1852 https://books.google.com/books?id=ubJXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA4 4 (text at archive.org) The Persia of to-day is not, it is true, the Persia of Darius the Great Darius, nor even is it the Persia of Abbas the Great Shah Abbas the Great; but it is a country, which for good or for ill, may powerfully affect the fortunes of Presidencies and provinces of British India Great Britain’s Empire in the East, and which requires, therefore, to be studied by our statesmen with care, with patience, and, above all, in a generous and indulgent spirit. Preface to the First Edition xi–xviii England and Russia in the East: A Series of Papers on the Political and Geographical Condition of Central Asia 2nd London John Murray 1875 https://books.google.com/books?id=JCkPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR13 (quote from p. xiii; text at archive.org) Quotes about Sir Henry Rawlinson The Memoir of Sir Henry Rawlinson affords a striking illustration of the powerful influence that early association with a master-mind may exercise on a man's career in life, and of what great things may be achieved if he takes full advantage of his opportunities, and sets out with a determination to make the most of his life and raise himself above his fellows. It may therefore be considered a piece of good fortune for a young cadet like Rawlinson, bound to India to seek his fortune, to find himself thrown as a fellow-passenger with Sir John Malcolm, History of Bombay under British rule Governor of Bombay, a distinguished soldier, an equally distinguished diplomatist, and an Oriental studies Oriental scholar of no mean reputation. Field Marshal (United Kingdom) Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts in: Introduction by Roberts George Rawlinson A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson Rawlinson, George London Longmans, Green & Company, 1898 xiii–xxii https://books.google.com/books?id=zLc92zrjf9cC&pg=PR13 (quote from p. xiii, text at archive.org) External links :wikisource:Author:Henry Creswicke Rawlinson Category:1810 births Category:1895 deaths Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Archaeologists from England Category:Liberal Party (UK) politicians Category:Military leaders from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Translators from England Category:Philologists Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Fellows of the Royal Society