Leonard Woolley

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is considered to have been one of the first modern archaeologists, and was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of archaeology.

Woolley was the son of a clergyman, and was brother to Geoffrey Harold Woolley, VC and George Cathcart Woolley. He was born atSouthwold Road, Upper Clapton, in the modern London Borough of Hackney and educated at St Johns School, Leatherhead and New College, Oxford. He was interested in excavations from a young age.

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