Dr. Karl Shuker is a prominent British zoologist who studies cryptid s.

Also notable is the work of British zoologist and cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, who has published 12 books and countless articles on numerous cryptozoological subjects since the mid-1980s.

Desmond John Morris FZS, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist.

* 1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist ( d. 1936 )

Based on morphological evidence, British zoologist Reginald Pocock concluded the jaguar is most closely related to the leopard.

Another attendee of the funeral was Ray Lankester, a British zoologist who would later become a prominent academic.

* Thomas Alan Stephenson ( 1898 – 1961 ), British zoologist

* April 5 – Hilda Bruce, British zoologist ( d. 1974 )

* January 1 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist ( b. 1777 )

* February 12 – John Edward Gray, British zoologist ( d. 1875 )

* April 3 – Jane Goodall, British zoologist

* May 18 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist ( d. 1852 )

* Richard Bowdler Sharpe, zoologist, founder of the British Ornithologists ' Club and Assistant Keeper of the British Museum

A late defence of Lamarckism came from the British zoologist Herbert Graham Cannon, he published Lamarck and Modern Genetics in 1959.

The genus was described by British zoologist Guy Coburn Robson in 1929.

In 1878, the Scottish zoologist John Anderson, first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, described Balaenoptera edeni, naming it after the former British High Commissioner in Burma, Sir Ashley Eden, who helped obtain the type specimen.

* Charles Stewart ( zoologist ) ( 1840 – 1907 ), British zoologist

It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach.

The Blue-winged Kookaburra was first collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, but was initially overlooked and confused with the Laughing Kookaburra, and was finally officially described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1826, its specific name commemorating the British zoologist William Elford Leach.

In 1851 British zoologist Edward Blyth described Elaninae, the " smooth clawed kites " as a formal subfamily of Accipitridae.

* Frederic Moore, British zoologist

The genus Phelsuma was first described by the British zoologist John Edward Gray in 1825 and named after the Dutch physician Murk van Phelsum.

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.

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.

* 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 )

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

** 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