Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st baronet (1810–95)

Assyriologist and diplomat. Officer in the East India Company, 1827–44. Consul at Baghdad, 1844; consul-general, 1851–5. Deciphered Persian cuneiform. President, Royal Geographical Society of London, 1871–2, 1874–5. Knighted, 1856. Created baronet, 1891.