Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.

Leakey ) ( 7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972 ) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa.

Most recently, British archaeologist and Assyriologist Professor David Stronach of the University of California, Berkeley conducted a series of surveys and digs at the site from 1987 – 1990, focusing his attentions to the several gates and the existent mudbrick walls, as well as the system that supplied water to the city in times of siege.

* 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

The temple was excavated in 1889-1896 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens ( who also played a leading role in the restoration of the Parthenon ), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.

Excavations from 1922 to 1934 were funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania and led by the archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley.

* September 24 – Aubrey Burl, British archaeologist

* March 2 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist ( b. 1874 )

** Mary Leakey, British archaeologist ( b. 1913 )

** Louis Leakey, British archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* March 16 – The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand.

* February 20 – Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist ( b. 1880 )

* May 9 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist ( d. 1939 )

* November 4 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

* July 8 – Arthur Evans, British archaeologist ( d. 1941 )

* January 12 – John Horsley, British archaeologist ( b. c. 1685 )

Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph. D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot ( born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS ( 8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941 ) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.

They were led by the American archaeologist Edward Chiera at Yorghan Tepe ( Nuzi ), and the British archaeologist Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak.

* Roger Mercer, British archaeologist

In 1852 the British Museum sent the archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton to search for more remains of the Mausoleum.

In the latter group, one notable friend of Childe's was Stuart Piggott, another influential British archaeologist who would succeed Childe in his post as Abercromby Professor at Edinburgh.

In 1973, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favorite statuette:

The site near Coventina's Well was excavated by British archaeologist, John Clayton, in 1876.

British zoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed most hamsters kept in the United Kingdom were descended from the colony he introduced for medical research purposes during the Second World War.

The mound of Kouyunjik were excavated again by the archaeologists of the British Museum, led by Leonard William King, at the beginning of the twentieth century.

* 19-Conrad Leonard, 104, British musician and composer.

* October 5 – Leonard Rossiter, British actor ( b. 1926 )

* February 5 – Leonard Monteagle Barlow, British fighter pilot ( b. 1898 )

** Leonard Cheshire, British war hero ( d. 1992 )

** Leonard Darwin, son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin ( d. 1943 )

** Queenie Leonard, British singer and actress ( b. 1905 )

Leonard Rossiter ( 21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984 ) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series and film Rising Damp ( 1974 – 80 ), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin ( 1976 – 79 ).

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC ( 27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005 ), was a British Labour politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1976 – 79 ) and Leader of the Labour Party ( 1976 – 80 ).

Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929 ) is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist.

In Moscow, 28 year old Wells qualified for the final, with a new British record 10. 11 s, where he faced pre-race favourite Silvio Leonard of Cuba.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

The purposed-built building was designed by group of architects, including prominent British " Arts and Crafts " architect James Leonard Williams ( d. 1926 ), who designed All Saints church in Oxted ( 1914-28 ) and St George ’ s in Sudbury, Middlesex ( 1926-27 ).

Leonard Constant Lambert ( 23 August 190521 August 1951 ) was a British composer and conductor.

* Leonard Webb, British veteran from the liberation of the camp.

Leonard Slatkin, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000 – 2004, expressed a desire to tone down the nationalism of the Last Night somewhat, and on the Last Night of the seasons from 2002 until 2007 Rule Britannia has only been heard as part of Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs ( another piece traditional to the Last Night ) rather than separately.

Through the interest of Sir George Leonard Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, he was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792-94 as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney.

After prime minister William McMahon threatened him with prosecution, Casley styled himself His Majesty Prince Leonard I of Hutt to take advantage of the British Treason Act 1495 ; that a self proclaimed monarch could not only not be guilty of any offence against the rightful ruler, but that anyone who interfered with his duties could be charged with treason.

A number of sources mention the involvement of Brigadier Leonard Parrington, a British Army officer captured by the Germans in Greece in 1941.

Philby thought the area a volcano, and it was only after bringing back samples to the UK that the site was identified as that of a meteorite impact by Dr Leonard James Spencer of the British Museum.

* In 1977, the British actor Leonard Rossiter played Haydon in a West End play, written by satirist John Wells titled The Immortal Haydon.

* British Open – Justin Leonard