Leonard Duncan Albert Hussey, OBE (6 May 1891 – 25 February 1964) was an English meteorologist, archaeologist, explorer, medical doctor and member of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic and Shackleton–Rowett Expeditions.

Returning once again to civilian practice in 1946, he was a member of the Royal College of Physicians, a lecturer, author, and Boy Scouts leader prior to retirement.

Leonard Hussey had eight siblings in total;[1] three brothers, James, William and Percy and five sisters, Maude, Beatrice, May, Blanche and Daisy.

[1][3] From 1913, Hussey had undertaken employment as an anthropologist and archaeologist at a dig in Jebel Moya,[4] Sudan as part of Henry Wellcome's Expedition.

'My luck in this respect was later explained to me by Shackleton, who said he was greatly amused to find amongst nearly five thousand applications to join the expedition, one that came from the heart of Africa.

[2] He was a popular member of the group due to his humour and perpetual playing of his five-string banjo,[8][9] in company with Dr. James McIlroy's imitations of the trombone and bagpipes.

[13] Hussey initially joined the London University contingent of the Officers' Training Corps, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the cadets on 13 November 1912.

[7][21] He served in Iceland as First Senior Medical Officer in the temporary rank of squadron leader, to which he was promoted on 1 July 1943 and then at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.

[3] Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1946 New Year Honours,[23] Hussey retained his links to the RAF for a time after the end of the war, serving in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a squadron leader, until his retirement on 10 February 1954.

[2] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours for his war service,[26] and in 1949 he served on the SS Clan Macauley as a ship's surgeon, sailing from England to South Africa and Australia.

Hussey was involved in the re-formation of the London Banjo Club and served for several years as president despite often being abroad for his work as ship's surgeon.