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Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode (1730–1799), trustee 1784–1799, a major collector of prints and books, who left his important collections to the museum. Charles Townley (1737–1805), trustee from 1791, his vast collection of Graeco-Roman marbles, bronzes and terracottas was acquired by the museum after his death, and a family trustee seat created.
Pages in category "Trustees of the British Museum" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The actual governance of the British Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees. [1] At the museum's inception its most senior member of staff was called "principal librarian". The job title became "director and principal librarian" in 1898, and "director" in 1973, on the separation of the British Library from the museum.
The art historian and curator was educated at London’s Courtauld Institute and went on to earn his blue-chip stripes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Modern before stepping into ...
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Trustees of the British Museum (64 P) Y. Trustees of York Museums Trust (9 P) Pages in category "Trustees of museums" The following 24 pages are in this category, out ...
Sir Thomas Grenville (1755–1846), a trustee of the British Museum from 1830, assembled a library of 20,240 volumes, which he left to the museum in his will. The books arrived in January 1847 in twenty-one horse-drawn vans.