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Patrick K. O'Brien

Patrick Karl O'Brien FBA FRHistS (born 12 August 1932) is a British academic and historian.

Richard MacGillivray Dawkins

Richard MacGillivray Dawkins FBA (24 October 1871 – 4 May 1955) was a British archaeologist.


Barrie Dobson

Richard Barrie Dobson, FRHistS, FSA, FBA (3 November 1931 - 29 March 2013) was a British historian who was a leading authority on the legend of Robin Hood as well as a scholar of ecclesiastical and Jewish history.

Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period.

Elinor Shaffer

Elinor Shaffer FBA is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, honorary reader at University College, London, editor of the Comparative Literature series of Legenda (imprint), and editor of Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, a book series published by Continuum Books.

Found Aircraft

Found originally formed in 1946 to produce a new bush plane design, the FBA-1, but entered production in 1964 with the Found FBA-2.

Found Brothers Aviation

The aircraft was developed into an all-metal version, the FBA-2C.

Graeme Barker

Graeme W. W. Barker, FBA (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology.

Helen Wallace

--Professionally known as Helen Wallace, not Lady Wallace, and thus the prefix is correctly added--> DBE, CMG, FBA (born 25 June 1946), née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress.

Ian Diamond

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, AcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

John Bryan Ward-Perkins

John Bryan Ward-Perkins, CMG, CBE, FBA (3 February 1912, Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom – 28 May 1981, Cirencester, United Kingdom) was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome.

John Hajnal

John Hajnal, FBA (b. 26 November 1924 in Darmstadt, then People's State of Hesse, Weimar Germany – d. 30 November 2008 in London), born John Hajnal-Kónyi, was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics (statistics).

Mark Blaug

Mark Blaug FBA (3 April 1927, The Hague, Netherlands – 18 November 2011, Dartmouth, United Kingdom), was a British economist (naturalised in 1982), who has covered a broad range of topics over his long career.

Mogens Herman Hansen

Mogens Herman Hansen FBA (b. August 20, 1940 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish classical philologist and classical demographer who is one of the leading scholars in Athenian Democracy and the Polis.

Moses I. Finley

Sir Moses I. Finley, CBE, FBA (May 20, 1912–June 23, 1986) was an American professor, whose prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where he became English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Neil Ripley Ker

Neil Ripley Ker, FBA, (1908-1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Pawlett, Somerset

Peter Haggett CBE ScD FBA (b. 1933), eminent academic geographer, emeritus professor at University of Bristol, born in Pawlett.

Richard David Barnett

Richard David Barnett CBE FBA (23 January 1909 – 29 July 1986) was the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum.

Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures

Professor Anthony Blunt, PhD MA FSA FBA 1945-1973 - Formerly Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO, until he was stripped of his titles after being found to be a spy.


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