Historical records matching Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Bart., GCB FRS
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About Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Bart., GCB FRS
Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS, (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology. Rawlinson was one of the most important figures arguing that Britain must check Russian ambitions in South Asia. He was a strong advocate of the forward policy in Afghanistan, and counselled the retention of Kandahar. He argued that Tsarist Russia would attack and absorb Khokand, Bokhara and Khiva (which they did – they are now parts of Uzbekistan and warned they would invade Persia (present-day Iran) and Afghanistan as springboards to British India.
- From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baronet, accessed 3 October 2019.
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Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Bart., GCB FRS's Timeline
1810 |
April 5, 1810
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Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England, UK
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1864 |
February 20, 1864
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Westminster, London, Middlesex, England UK
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January 17, 1867
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1895 |
March 5, 1895
Age 84
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London, England UK
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