* Davis, Miriam ( 2008 ), Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land, Walnut Creek ( CA ), Left Coast Press, 304 pp.

Other Rothschild properties included Bentley Priory and Champneys ( near Wigginton ), both in Hertfordshire, and the family still owns an estate at Ashton Wold near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the family home of Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild.

* Reminiscences by Rozsika's daughter, Dame Miriam Rothschild, published in the Jewish Quarterly

) Her elder sister Dame Miriam Rothschild was a distinguished scientist and zoologist.

There is also a memorial to conscientious objectors ( unveiled in 1995 ), busts of Virginia Woolf and Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake as well as a cherry tree planted in 1967 in memory of the victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

Dame Flora Louisa Shaw, Lady Lugard, DBE ( born 1852, Woolwich, England, UK – died 25 January 1929, Surrey, England, UK ), the daughter of an English father, Captain ( later Major General ) George Shaw and a French mother, Marie Desfontaines, was a British journalist and writer.

Shaw, Dame Flora Louisa, Lady Lugard ( 1852 – 1929 ), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press ( 2004 )

RADA has a number of notable associate members including Jane Asher, Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Bourne, Kenneth Branagh, Jon Cryer, Richard Digby Day, Trevor Eve, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Iain Glen, Gerald Harper, Sir Ian Holm, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Patricia Kneale, Paul McGann, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Trevor Nunn, Peter O ' Toole, Dame Diana Rigg, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lord Snowdon, Shelley Thompson, Alan Rickman, Timothy Dalton and Sir Roger Moore.

Rothschild was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985 and was made a Dame in 2000.

Now, after the death of Dame Alicia Markova, the president is Leopold David de Rothschild CBE, and the vice Presidents are Irek Mukhamedov OBE and Howard Goodall CBE.

In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 1968, Holt's widow Zara Holt was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Zara Holt DBE.

Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE ( 5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978 ), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent.

Similarly, actress Judi Dench DBE may be addressed as Dame Judi or Dame Judi Dench, but never Dame Dench.

In 1966, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ).

Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Rutherford was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1961 and was raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1967.

* Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE

Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, DBE ( 28 March 19027 July 1984 ) was an English actress, renowned as a character actress, who played roles ranging from queens to villainesses.

She was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1952, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1960, an award which was partly for her charity work, largely unnoticed, which she carried on until her death, often for small and rather obscure charities rather than the grand ones which would have given her more publicity.

Dame Mary Claire Hogg, DBE ( b. 15 January 1947 )

Dame Judith Olivia " Judi " Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA ( born 9 December 1934 ) is an English film, stage and television actress.

Dench was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1970 and advanced as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) of the order in 1988.

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE ( 15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003 ) was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years.

Regarded as one of Britain's great dramatic talents, she was created an Officer of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1971 and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 1975.

Dame Dorothy Tutin DBE ( 8 April 19306 August 2001 ) was an English actress of stage, film and television.

Tutin was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1967, and raised to Dame Commander ( DBE ) in 2000.

* Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE British Prima Ballerina

* Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE ( 10 March 2000 )

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, the British astrophysicist known for first discovering radio pulsars, is currently a visiting professor.

* Dame Cicely Saunders, OM, DBE – Anglican nurse, physician, writer, and pioneer of the hospice movement

Dame Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE ( born 27 August 1932 ), née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Lady Antonia Fraser.

A Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to literature.

* Dame Kay Davies, FRS, Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy

* 2011-12: Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS, FRSE

Dame ( Susan ) Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS ( born 15 July 1943 ) is a British astrophysicist.

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE FRS ( née Yardley ) ( 28 January 1903-1 April 1971 ) was a crystallographer, who established the structure of benzene by X-ray diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by Fourier spectral methods in 1931.

Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS ( 17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998 ) was a leading 20th-century British mathematician.

* Hugh Newall FRS, Astrophysicist ( 34 ) whose second wife was Dame Bertha Phillpotts Mistress of Girton College 1922-1925

* Dame Valerie Beral AC FRS, Professor of Epidemiology at Oxford collage, leader of the survey of 1. 3 million women that established hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) as a major cause of increased breast cancer rates in western nations

Dame Julia Stretton Higgins, DBE, FRS, FREng ( née Downes ; born 1 July 1942 ) is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London.

Dame Julia replaced Professor Adrian Smith FRS as ACME Chair in September 2008 when Adrian became Director General of Science and Research at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.