Lord Inglewood, previously Richard Vane, has been called to the Bar and is also a Chartered Surveyor. Between 1989-1994 and 1999-2004 he was Conservative Spokesman on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament. He has chaired the Development Control Committee of the Lake District Planning Board and is Chairman of Cumbrian Newspaper Group, and of Carr’s Milling Industries plc. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of National Heritage between 1995-97. In 1999 he was elected an hereditary member of the House of Lords, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA) in 2003. He owns and lives at Hutton-in-the-Forest, his family’s historic house in Cumbria.

Appointed 1 December 2003: appointment expires on 30 November 2011

 

 

 

Professor of the History of Art and Film, University of Leicester.  He is an expert on Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings and the author of Correggio (1997) and Parmigianino (2006). Formerly a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (1983-86) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1987-91), he worked in the Old Master Paintings and Master Drawings departments at Christie’s in London from 1991-1997, and, in addition, from 1992 was Head of European Sculpture and Works of Art Department there. He was editor of Apollo magazine from 1997-2004. He has organised and contributed to the catalogues of numerous exhibitions, including Old Master Paintings from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, (Royal Academy 1988) and Andrea Mantegna (Royal Academy, London and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992). In 2004, he was made an Honorary Citizen of the town of Correggio. In September 2006, he became a Trustee of the National Gallery.

Appointed 14 November 2002: appointment expires 12 November 2010

 

 

 

Chairman and Managing Director of Johnny Van Haeften Ltd, the gallery specialising in 17th-century Dutch and Flemish Old Master pictures, which he has run for thirty years, since leaving Christie’s.   He is also on the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the European Fine Art Foundation and is an adviser to the Fine Art Fund.  He was Vice Chairman of the Society of London Art Dealers, a former council member of the British Antique Dealers Association, and a former Chairman of Pictura, the pictures section of the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht. 

Appointed 28 June 2001: appointment expires on 27 June 2008

 

 

 

Currently a Director and Trustee of The Burlington Magazine, Chairman of the Furniture History Society, Chairman of the Walpole Society and Chairman of the Leche Trust. He previously held the posts of Acting Keeper and then Curator of the Department of Furniture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, before becoming Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1989 to 1995). He then served as Director of Historic Buildings at the National Trust (1995 to 2002).  He is also an Honorary Vice President of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Life Trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum and a member of the Advisory Council of the Art Fund.

Appointed 10 April 2007: appointment expires on 9 April 2011

 

 

 

Former curator of the Romano-British collections at the British Museum. She was trained in prehistoric and Roman Archaeology, and has published and lectured extensively, especially on Roman provincial art, jewellery and silver. Her publications include Sex or Symbol; erotic images of Greece and Rome (1982), The jewellery of Roman Britain (1996), museum catalogues of Roman treasure finds, and more than a hundred articles in scholarly journals. She has served on the committees of the Society of Antiquaries, the Roman Society, and the British Archaeological Association. She was a former Chair of the Society of Jewellery Historians and is currently a Trustee of the Roman Research Trust .

Appointed 19 February 2003: appointment expires on 17 February 2011

 

 

 

Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum from 1 May 2005. Head Curator of the National Trust from 2002 – 2005 and its Architectural Historian previously. Between 1989 and 1995 he was Assistant Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Drawings Collection. He is a Trustee of the Pilgrim Trust and of the Stowe House Preservation Trust. He was appointed Historic Buildings Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2005 and is a member of the Conseil scientifique de l'établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles. He was a founding member of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust, and its Chairman 2000-2005. He regularly lectures and writes on aspects of architecture, sculpture and the history of collecting.

Appointed 14 March 2002: appointment expires 13 March 2009

 

Currently Senior Curator of the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow (since 1998).  She was appointed Professor of Mackintosh Studies in 2003. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Interiors and Collections Committee of the National Trust for Scotland and a Governor of Glasgow School of Art.  Previously, she was a member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland (1998 to 2002). She has organised a range of  exhibitions and her publications include Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers (ed.1990); Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Art is the Flower (1995);  The Chronycle: The Letters of CR Mackintosh to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (2001); and Doves and Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald and J. Herbert McNair (2006)

Appointed 2 December 2003: appointment expires on 20 November 2011

 

 

 

Dr Christopher Wright joined the Department of Manuscripts, British Library, in 1974 and was Head of Manuscripts from 2003 until his retirement in October 2005. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2002) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1982). His publications include George III (2005) and, as editor, Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier (1997). From 1989 to 1999, he was editor of the British Library Journal. He served as a Trustee of the Sir Winston Churchill Archives Trust, Cambridge (2001 to 2005) and was on the Council of the Friends of the National Libraries (2003 to 2006). From August 2005 he has been a Trustee of 'The Handwriting of Italian Humanists'. In October 2005, he was appointed to the Acceptance in Lieu Panel of the Museums Libraries and Archives Council.

Appointed 20 November 2006; appointment expires on 19 November 2010