Albert Lionel Frederick Rivet, (30 November 1915 – 6 September 1993) was a British archaeologist and cartographer.

Biography

Albert Lionel "Leo" Frederick Rivet was born on 30 November 1915 in

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, London, the only son of Albert Robert Rivet (1879–1955) and Rose Mary Bulow (1880–1960). He attended Falconbury School from 1923 to 1929, gained a scholarship to

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, then entered

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in 1934 to study classics.

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's lectures at Oriel arouse Rivet's interests in archaeology. He briefly worked as a schoolmaster in 1938–1939, then enlisted as a private soldier in the

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in East Africa, serving as a major from 1940 to 1946. Rivet worked as a bookseller during five years after January 1946, first in

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, then in

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. He married Audrey Catherine Webb (1925–2018) in 1947. In 1952, he obtained the post of Assistant Archaeology Officer in the

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, where he was responsible for the production of historical period maps. Rivet participated in the redaction of the third edition of the ''Map of Roman Britain'' (1956), then published ''Town and Country in Roman Britain'' in 1956. He moved to

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in 1964, where he became Professor of Roman Provincial Studies. He wrote many publications including ''The Place-Names of Roman Britain'' (1979), co-written with Colin Smith, and ''Gallia Narbonensis'' (1988). Rivet served as president of the academic journal ''

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'' from 1977 to 1980, and as a vice-president thereafter. He was also a member of the

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, the

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, and the

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. Rivet died on 6 September 1993, nearly two years after a severe stroke.

References

; Bibliography * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heusler, Albert Lionel Frederick 1915 births 1993 deaths British archaeologists Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford 20th-century British cartographers