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This rose to 50 by the mid-1800s, including the addition of a trustee appointed by the Crown (British Museum Act 1832) and one representative each from the Towneley, Elgin, and Knight families. [7] The British Museum Act 1963 reduced the number of trustees to the current 25 and set the time-limit on appointments.
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. ...
In 1763, the trustees of the British Museum, under the influence of Peter Collinson and William Watson, employed the former student of Carl Linnaeus, Daniel Solander, to reclassify the natural history collection according to the Linnaean system, thereby making the museum a public centre of learning accessible to the full range of European ...
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.
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 ...
Trustees of the British Museum (64 P) Pages in category "People associated with the British Museum" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
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Jenkins, Ian (1992), Archaeologists & aesthetes : in the sculpture galleries of the British Museum 1800-1939, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by the British Museum Press, ISBN 978-0-7141-1299-2, OCLC 27204051; Jenkins, Ian (1994), The Parthenon frieze, University of Texas Press, ISBN 978-0-292-74038-9, OCLC 31638838