Harry Rawson

Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG , is chiefly remembered for overseeing the British Benin Expedition of 1897 that burned and looted the city of the Kingdom of Benin, now in Nigeria. No shame was attached to the event at the time, which amounted to a punitive expedition, and Admiral Rawson was appointed Governor of New South Wales,May 1902 May 1909.

Harry Rawson was born at WaltononHill, Lancashire onNovember 1843, the son of Christopher Rawson. He was educated at Eastmans Royal Naval Academy and at Marlborough College.

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