[Leonard William]. English archæologist, born in London on the 8th of December 1869. Educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge, he obtained an appointment in the Egyptian and Assyrian department of the British Museum and connducted the Museum’s excavations on the site of Nineveh. He also travelled widely in the Near East and collected rock inscriptions in Assyria, Persia and Kurdistan. He was for some years professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archæology at King’s College, London, and published a large number of works on these subjects, including Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896); Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum (1896–1909); Babylonian Religion and Mythology (1899) and many others. He died in London on the 20th of August 1919.
