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    Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

    British army officer, politician and Orientalist (1810–1895)

    For other people with similar names, see Henry Rawlinson (disambiguation).

    Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, GCB FRSKLS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.

    His son, also Henry, was to become a senior commander in the British Army during the First World War.

    Early life and army service

    Rawlinson was born on 5 April 1810 at the place now known as Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England.[1] He was the second son of Abram Tyack Rawlinson and elder brother of the historian George Rawlinson.

    In 1827, having become proficient in the Farsi, he was sent to Persia in company with other British officers to drill and reorganize the Shah's troops. Disagreements between the Persian court and the British government, also involving Russia, ended in the depart