3-053-663 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B, member of the Council for India, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry. 'Rawlinson...served in the Bombay army, was Resident in Persia, then Political Agent at Kandahar, and helped to keep that position safe during the Afghan War. In 1843 he became the British Political Agent in Turkish Arabia; he was afterwards British Consul at Bagdad, and Consul-General in Asiatic Turkey...he was elected a Director of the East India Company, in 1856...On the transfer of the Indian Government from the Company to the Queen's Administration, in 1858, he was appointed one of the Council to advise the Secretary of State for India...In April, 1859, he was sent as Special Envoy to the Court of Teheran...Sir Henry is well known to be a scholar of high attainments in Oriental philology, antiquities, and history. He has contributed much to the discussions of the Asiatic and Geographical Societies, especially with reference to the interpretation of Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian cuneiform inscriptions. The Royal Geographical Society elected him President...He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society...and an honorary member of several foreign learned societies'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.