Tim Knox
Timothy Aidan John Knox, CVO FSA (born 9 August 1962) is a British art historian and museum director. Since March 2018, he has been Director of the Royal Collection, the private art collection of the British royal family. The Royal Collection, held in trust by The King for his successors and the nation, comprises almost all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, runs to more than a million objects, and is housed across some 15 present and former royal residences across the UK.[1] From 2013 to 2018, he was the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge.
Biography
[edit]Tim Knox was educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, and took a BA at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[2] In 1989 he was appointed Assistant Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection. In 1995, he joined the National Trust as its Architectural Historian and in 2002 became that organisation's Head Curator. Among the projects with which he was involved were the restoration of the gardens of Stowe House, the acquisition of Tyntesfield in Somerset and of the Workhouse in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, and the restoration of the Darnley Mausoleum in Cobham Park, Kent.[3]
From 2005 to 2013, he was Director of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where he oversaw a restoration project of Nos. 12 and 14 Lincoln's Inn Fields, the two houses flanking the original house-museum created by the Georgian architect Sir John Soane.[3] Since 2009 he has been a member of the editorial board of the Georgian Group. He has been Vice-Patron of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association since 2012.[2]
From 2013 to 2018, he was the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge[4] and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[5]
In January 2018, it was announced that he would be the next Director of the Royal Collection: he took up the position in March 2018 thereby joining the staff of the Royal Household.[6] In this role, he took part in the 2023 Coronation.[7]
Knox was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2025 Birthday Honours.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Queen Appoints Fitzwilliam Chief Tim Knox Director of Royal Collection". Artlyst. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- 1 2 "Knox, Timothy Aidan John". Who's Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 19 August 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 "New director appointed at the Fitzwilliam Museum". Arts Council England. 7 December 2012. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
- ↑ "Tim Knox". Our Directors. UK: Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ↑ "Knox, Timothy Aidan John". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.45306.
- ↑ "Appointment of a new Director of the Royal Collection". The Royal Collection Trust. 5 January 2018. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ↑ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. UK. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ↑ "No. 64759". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2025. p. B4.
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