GEORGE RAWLINSON BIOGRAPHY

RAWLINSON, GEORGE (1812-1902). —Historian, born at Chadlington. Oxfordshire, and ed. at Oxf., took orders, and was Canon of Canterbury from 1872. He held the Camden Professorship of Ancient History at Oxf. from 1861. Among his works are a translation of Herodotus (1858-62) (with his brother, Sir Henry R. , q.v. ), Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records , The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World (1862-67), Manual of Ancient History (1869), The Sixth and Seventh Great Oriental Monarchies (1873-77), History of Ancient Egypt (1881), Histories of the Phœnicians and Parthians , Memoirs of Sir H.C. Rawlinson (1898).