Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton

Leonard Halford Dudley Buxton FSA (1889–1939) was a British anthropologist, he was educated at Radley and Exeter College, Oxford, he was Reader in Physical Anthropology at the University of Oxford between 1928 and 1939. He conducted field work in Sudan, India, Malta, USA, China and Mesopotamia, and in 1913 he excavated Lapithos in Cyprus under the direction of professor John Myres. During his extensive travels he documented his work through photography, the pictures are currently in the Pitt Rivers Museum.[1] In the 1930s he carried research in Oxford together with anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood.[2] He collected textiles that are currently in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax and the British Museum.[3][4][5] From 1914-1918 he served with the Cameron Highlanders in France and in the Intelligence Service.[6]