Rawlinson
Rawlinson names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Rawlinson BARON HENRY SEYMOUR, a British military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BARON HENRY SEYMOUR, a British military officer. He was born in 1864 , at Knoyle, Wilts, and was educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and the Staff College , Camberley. In 1884 he entered the 60th K. R. Rifles, and in 1887 was A. D , C, to Sir Fred- A erick Roberts, Commander-in-chief in India. He served with the Mounted Infantry, Burma campaign (medal and clasp). He returned to England in 1889 and exchanged into Coldstream Guards in 1892. He served in the Soudan campaign in 1898 and was present at the battles of Atbara and Khartoum. He served in the South African War at Ladysmith in 1900 and commanded a mobile column 1901-1902. In the World War he was mentioned in dispatches twice in 1914-1915, and was promoted major-general in 1917, serving in Montenegro. He has published "The Officers' Note-Book." American educator; born in Albany, N. Y., Feb. 21, 21, 1846; was graduated at Yale University in 1868 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1872; was ordained in the Congregational Church and served as a chaplain in the United States navy in 1871-1890; was placed in charge of the Department of Ethics and English Studies at the United States Naval Academy in 1888 and was made superintendent of "Naval War Records," March 31, 1897. His publications include "Twenty Famous Naval Battles"; "Salamis to Santiago" (1899); and essays including "Anarchic Socialism"; "New Englander" (1884); "The Naval Chaplaincy" (1892); "The Rationale of Russian Socialism"; (1888) "Twenty Famous Battles" (1899); etc.
Rawlinson SIR HENRY CRES- WICKE, an English Orientalist and diplomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR HENRY CRES- WICKE, an English Orientalist and diplomatist; born in Chadlington, England, April 11, 1810 ; entered the East Indian Company's army in 1827. In 1833 he went to Persia to assist in organizing the Persian army. During the six years he spent there he began to study the cuneiform inscriptions, and made a translation of Darius' famous Behistun inscription, which he published in the "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society ." After he left Persia he held command of Kandahar during the troublous times of 1840-1842 (see AFGHANISTAN) ; was appointed political agent at Bagdad in 1844, and consul-general there in 1851. Five years later he returned home to England, was made K. C. B., and appointed by the crown director of the East India Company. In 1858 he went back to Persia as British minister, but remained at Teheran only one year. Appointed a member of the Council of India in 1868, he was nominated its vice-president in 1876. Other public positions he heldthe presidency of the Royal Geographical Society ( 1871); a trusteeship of the British Museum (1879 ); a directorship of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was made a baronet in 1891. He wrote: "A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria" (1850); "Outline of the History of Assyria" (1852); "The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia"; " England and Russia in the East" (2d ed. 1875 ); etc. He died in London, March 5, 1895.
Rawlinson GEORGE, an English Orientalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an English Orientalist; born in Chadlington, England, Nov. 23, 1812; educated at Cambridge; preached the Bampton Lectures in 1859; was elected Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1861 , and made a canon of Canterbury in 1872. He published a translation of Herodotus with a commentary (1858-1860); "The Five World" (1862-1867), followed by the Sixth (1873) and the "Seventh Oriental Monarchy" (1876); "History of Ancient Egypt" (1881); " Egypt and Babylon" (1885); "Phœnicia" (1889); "Memoir of Gen. H. C. Rawlinson " (1898). He died in 1902. Great Monarchies Ancient Eastern
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 notice of Baron Henry Seymour Rawlinson is oddly thin, crediting him only with two mentions in dispatches and promotion to major-general in 1917: in fact he commanded the British Fourth Army on the Somme in 1916 and at Amiens on 8 August 1918, the day Ludendorff called the black day of the German army, and he was raised to the peerage for it in 1919. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief in India and died at Delhi in 1925. The other two entries stand up better. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson's reading of the Behistun inscription of Darius remains the foundation of Old Persian and cuneiform decipherment, and the rock itself was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006; his brother George's translation of Herodotus and his Seven Great Monarchies are still read, though as period pieces long superseded by excavation in Iraq and Iran.
Written for this edition, 2026.