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Fictional use of real character
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810-1895), Diplomat and Assyriologist, the second son of Abram Tyack Rawlinson and brother of George Rawlinson; entered military service in 1827 with the East India Company; appointed political agent at Kandahar in 1840 and in 1843 consul at Baghdad; director of the East India Company in 1856 and from1859-1860 he was British minister in Persia and member of the Council of India in 1858-1859, 1868-1895