A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Rawlinson, Sir Henry Cresswicke

by John William Cousin

Rawlinson, Sir Henry Cresswicke (1810-1895).—Brother of the above, entered the service of the East India Company, and held many important diplomatic posts. He studied the cuneiform inscriptions, and pub. The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (1861-80), Outlines of the History of Assyria (1852), He deciphered most of the inscriptions discovered by Sir A. H Layard (q.v.).