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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. ...
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.
Over at the British Museum, the board of trustees took notice. A series of scandals, such as the one in which they discovered that a veteran curator had stolen more than 1,800 antiquities and sold ...
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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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