Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

The Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the head of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a post currently held by Tristram Hunt, who succeeded Martin Roth, who died in August 2017, months after he announced he would resign in January. He is responsible for that institution's general administration and reports its accounts to the British Government. The actual governance of the Museum, however, is delegated to its board of trustees; these are appointed individually by the British Prime Minister.[1]

Director Post held Served
Sir Henry Cole (1808–1882)Organised and conducted the two museums from which the Victoria and Albert Museum grew: the Museum of Oriental Art and the South Kensington Museum 1852–1873
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, KBE KCMG CIE (1828–1894)Director of the South Kensington Museum1874–1893
John Henry Middleton (1846–1896)Director of the Art Museum (Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum) 1893–1896
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke (1846–1911)Director of the Art Museum (Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum) 1896–1905
Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911)Director of the Art Museum (Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum) 1905–1908
Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith,[2] KCVO (1859–1944)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1909–1924
Sir Eric MacLagan, CBE, FSA (1879–1951)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1924–1945
Sir Leigh Ashton, FSA (1897–1983) Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1945–1955
Sir Trenchard Cox, CBE, MA, FSA, FMA (1905–1995)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1956–1966
Sir John Pope-Hennessy, CBE, FBA, FSA (1913–1994)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1967–1973
Sir Roy Strong (born 1935)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1973–1987
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (born 1938)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1987–1995
Alan Borg, CBE (born 1942)Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum 1995–2001
Sir Mark Jones (born 1951)Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum 2001–2011
Martin Roth (1955–2017)Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum 2011–2016
Tristram Hunt (born 1974)Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum 2017–current

References

  1. Trustees of the V&A. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2011-12-11
  2. "No. 32095". The London Gazette. 22 October 1920. p. 10197.
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