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Dr Tristram Hunt
b. 1974
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
2017 –
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Martin Roth
1955 – 2017
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
2011 – 2016
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Sir Mark Jones
b. 1951
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
2001 – 2011
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Dr Alan Borg, CBE
b. 1942
Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1995 – 2001
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Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
b. 1938
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1987 – 95
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Sir Roy Strong
b. 1935
Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1974 – 87
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Sir John Pope-Hennessy, CBE, FBA, FSA
1913 – 94
Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1967 – 73
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Sir Trenchard Cox, CBE, MA, FSA, FMA
1905 – 95
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Sir Leigh Ashton, FSA
1897 – 1983
Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1945 – 55
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Sir Eric Maclagan, CBE, FSA
1879 – 1951
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Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith KCVO
1859 – 1944
Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1909 – 24
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Arthur Banks Skinner
1861 – 1911
Director of the Art Museum
(Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
1905 – 08
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Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke
1846 – 1911
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John Henry Middleton
1846 – 96
Director of the Art Museum
(Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
1893 – 96
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Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, KCP, KCMG, CIE
1828 – 94
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Sir Henry Cole, CB
1808 – 82
Organised and conducted the two museums from which the Victoria and Albert Museum was formed – the Museum of Ornamental Art and the South Kensington Museum.
1852 – 73