IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0402 HCR
Held at: Royal Geographical Society
Title: RAWLINSON, Major General Sir Henry Creswicke (1810-1895)
Date(s): 1831-1860
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 5 boxes and 21 files
Name of creator(s): Rawlinson | Sir | Henry Creswicke | 1810-1895 | Knight | 1st Baronet | archaeologist, diplomat and MP | Major General
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1810; entered for the East India Company's service and set out for India, 1827; engaged in reorganising the Persian army, 1833-1839; undertook tours in Susiana and Persian Kurdistan; awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1839; returned to India and was appointed assistant to Sir W. Macnaughton in Afghanistan; political agent for lower Afghanistan, 1842; political agent of the East India Company in Turkish Arabia, 1843; consul in Baghdad, 1844; Fellow of the RGS 1844-1895; RGS Council Member from 1850; Vice-President of the RGS, 1864, 1871, 1872, 1874, and 1875; Conservative MP for Reigate, 1858; MP for Frome, 1865-1868; member of the newly created Council of India, 1858; minister to Persia; died, 1895.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1831-1860, including private journals in India and Persia, 1831, 1834, 1836, 1839, 1860; political diaries in Kandahar (first Afghan War) and Baghdad 1841-1843; road report on a journey from Baghdad into Persia with sketches and copies of inscriptions; miscellaneous notebooks and some sketches, Mesopotamia 1843-1850; notebooks containing extracts and notes on the antiquities of Indo-Persia, Central Asia and the Oxus and Babylonia; miscellaneous drafts and notes of official letters and official and personal letters to Rawlinson (Sir Alexander Burnes, General Nott, Sir Willoughby Cotton, Sir William Hay Macnaughten) 1837-1844, chiefly concerned with the first Afghan War; and Parliamentary papers and confidential India Office papers 1869-1893 concerning relations with Russia on the Persian and Afghan frontiers. (300 items).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Accessible via The Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at the discretion of the Archivist, and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
Box list available in the Foyle Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited at the RGS by Lady Rawlinson.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Further letters and manuscripts are to be found with the Observation file, Journal Manuscripts - JMS/9/47, JMS/9/57 - and Correspondence files - RGS/CB2/116, RGS/CB2/331, RGS/CB2/442, RGS/CB2/445, RGS/CB2/487, RGS/CB3/65, RGS/CB3/489, RGS/CB3/642, RGS/CB5/547, RGS/CB6/1320, RGS/CB6/1801, RGS/CB6/1830. Further letters are also located as part of the David Livingstone Collection - DL/4/16, DL/4/18/1, DL/4/18/2.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Prepared by Archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB; Obit. Geog. Jnl. 1895.
Rules or conventions: ISAD(G) ed.2, name authority NRA.
Date(s) of descriptions: 9th May 2001. Jul 2008.