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.[1]

He went to St Paul's School, London and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was a student of British School of Archaeology at Athens, 1930-32.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1962 and made a CBE in 1974.

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  1. "Obituary of Dr Richard Barnett". The Times (London). 6 August 1986. Dr Richard Barnett, CBE, FBA, FSA, Keeper of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum from 1955 to 1974 and an authority on archaeology of the ancient world, died on July 29.


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