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Babylonia; during which time he succeeded in securing for the British Museum important relics connected with the history of those three great ancient kingdoms, amongst which he discovered in a small mound called "Balauat," in the vicinity of Nineveh, a magnificent pair of bronze gates, twenty feet high, forming a memorial of the wars of Shalmenesar III., b.c. 850. The rich embossed bronzes are now in the British Museum. He also discovered, amongst other sites, the great cities of Sippara, or Sepharvaim, and Cuthah, situated in Southern Mesopotamia. During the Turko-Russian war he was sent by the British Foreign Office on a special mission to Asia Minor, Armenia, and Kurdistan, to inquire into the condition of the different Christian communities, who were said to be maltreated by their Moslem countrymen.
RAWES, The Rev. Henry Augustus, D.D., was born at Easington, near Durham, in Dec., 1826; was educated at Houghton-le-Spring, in Durham, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1849, and proceeded M.A. in 1852. He became curate of St. Botolph, Aldgate, in June, 1851; curate of St. Bartholomew. Moor Lane, in June, 1853; Warden of the House of Charity, Soho, in May, 1854; was received into the Catholic Church in March, 1856; ordained priest in Nov., 1857; and took charge of the district of Notting Hill. He was created D.D. by order of Pope Pius IX. in 1875. Mr. Rawes is the author of "Home-ward;" "Nine Visits to the Blessed Sacrament;" "Twelve Visits to our Lady and the City of God;" "Devotions for the Souls in Purgatory;" "Septem, or Seven Ways of Hearing Mass," 7th edit.; "Great Truths in Little Words;" "Sursum;" and "The Bread of Life; or, S. Thomas Aquinas on the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar. Arranged as Meditations," 1879.
RAWLE, The Right Rev. Richard, Bishop of Trinidad, was born about 1814, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became Fellow in 1836, and afterwards Tutor. He graduated B.A. (third wrangler and fourth in the first class of the classical tripos) in 1835, and M.A. in 1838. He became Rector of Cheadle, Staffordshire, in 1839; Principal of Codrington College, Barbadoes, in 1847; Vicar of Felmersham, near Bedford, in 1867; Vicar of Tamworth in 1869; and in 1872, on the election of the clergy and laity, the first Bishop of Trinidad, which had until then, constituted a part of the diocese of Barbadoes. The ceremony of consecration took place in Lichfield Cathedral, June 29, 1872.
RAWLINSON, The Rev. George, M.A., fourth son of A. T. Rawlinson, Esq., of Chadlington, Oxon., born about 1815, was educated at Swansea Grammar School, and at Ealing School; entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1835; took a first class in classics in 1838; and was elected a Fellow of Exeter College in 1840. He obtained the Denyer Prize for a Theological Essay in 1842, and again in 1843, and having held for some years a Tutorship in his college, was appointed Moderator in 1852; became Public Examiner in 1854, again in 1856, 1868, and 1874; and preached the Bampton Lecture in 1859. He was elected without a contest to the Camden Professorship of Ancient History in the University in 1861, and took an active part in the agitation which preceded the passing of the Oxford University Act, in favour of the changes then effected. In Sept., 1872, he was appointed a Canon of Canterbury. He has written (in conjunction with Sir H. Rawlinson and Sir G. Wilkinson) "The History of Herodotus," a new English version, with copious notes, 1858-60; "The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records, in Eight