Rawlinson
Americannoun
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George, 1812–1902, English historian.
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his brother Sir Henry Creswicke 1810–95, English archaeologist, diplomat, and soldier.
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Peter Rawlinson, the chief engineer on Tesla’s Model S who led Lucid after it went public, left the company in February 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Winterhoff, who took over for founder Peter Rawlinson in 2025.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
At a previous High Court hearing, lawyers for Matt Goodwin and his election agent Adam Rawlinson acknowledged some election leaflets had failed to include a "statutory imprint", something which constituted "inadvertent illegal practice".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
“Nobody took it seriously…we couldn’t even get suppliers to supply us parts,” Rawlinson, who became chief engineer, told me Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The other object of interest, which has been carefully described by Sir H. Rawlinson and Sir H. Layard, is specially remarkable as having afforded the key to the decipherment of the cuneiform character.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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