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2 unusual facts about Conservator


Conservator

Conservator-restorer, a person who preserves museum artifacts and items

Conservatorship, a person appointed by a court or regulatory authority to supervise a person or entity's financial affairs


A. W. Lawrence

In 1951 he resigned his post at Cambridge to become the Professor of Archaeology at the University College of the Gold Coast where he established the National Museum and was the Secretary and Conservator of the Monuments and Relics Committee.

Acting Conservator of the River Mersey

The Conservator originally acted on behalf of a Commission appointed by The Crown, but now acts for the Department for Transport.

Christian Zervos

M. Christian Durquet, Conservator of Patrimony at the Musée de l'Art Contemporain, ordered the establishment of a Zervos Museum at Vézelay.

Clan Little

By 1300 the Littles had settled in Dumfriesshire where Nicol Little was recorded as Conservator of the Peace for Lochmabenston in the Scottish West March of the Anglo-Scottish border.

Gojko Berkuljan

After graduation he worked for a couple of years as technical director of the journal Pobjeda (Victory) and conservator for paintings on canvass at the Institute for Protection of the Monuments of History in Cetinje.

Götz Adriani

After working for some years as a conservator in Darmstadt, Adriani became the director of the newly founded Kunsthalle in Tübingen, the town of his last alma mater, in 1971.

Harry George Champion

He joined the Indian Forest Service in 1915 and became a silviculturist at the Forest Research Institute at Dehradun staying there until 1936 before becoming a Conservator in the United Provinces.

Heinrich Jakob Fried

Being patronized by Prince Karl von Wrede, he settled at Munich in 1842, and became conservator of the Artistic Society in 1845.

Henry Keith

Harry Keith, Henry George Keith, (1899-1982) British Conservator of Forests in North Borneo

Johan de Fin

Field Marshal Baron Johan de Fin (1800–1887), was Chamberlain to Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, an officer in the British German Legion, and Conservator of Forests in the Eastern Cape.

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

In 1807 he became professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the university of Landshut, and in 1823 conservator of the mineralogical collections at Munich, where he was appointed professor of mineralogy three years later, on the removal thither of the university of Landshut.

John Tipler

He also attended the University of East Anglia studying art history but after a brief career as a conservator of medieval wall paintings he went back into motoring journalism.

Knysna elephants

Captain Harison, Conservator of Forests between 1856 and 1888, petitioned the Cape Colonial Government to formally protect the elephants and forests, but his pleas fell on deaf ears.

Martin Burgess

His exact contemporaries at Farfield included Robert Aagaard, later a furniture maker and conservator who founded the youth movement Cathedral Camps.

Mary Ann Sampson

The artist was included in "ABeCedarium: An Exhibit of Alphabet Books," juried by noteworthy peers William Drendel, book artist and Guild of Book Workers member; Paul Gehl of the Newberry Library and "ABC Books Then" curator; and Pam Spitzmueller, book artist and conservator at Harvard University.

Michel Laclotte

From 1972, he also championed the idea of turning Paris's gare d'Orsay into a museum, and became its head conservator on its opening in 1986.

N. Santosh Hegde

Hegde resigned from the Lokayukta position on 23 June 2010 after an officer (Deputy Conservator of Forests R Gokul) was suspended by order of minister J. Krishna Palemar and he felt powerless to help.

Rudolf van Eecke

In 1916 (Leidsch Jaarboekje 1917) he became a conservator at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie now merged with Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie as Naturalis, where he worked on Lepidoptera.

Sandakan

Agnes Keith House, also known as Newlands - two-storey home of local author Agnes Newton Keith and her husband Harry Keith (Conservator of Forests and Curator of the North Borneo Museum).

Theodor Bartus

Theodor Bartus (January 30, 1858 in Lassan, Germany - January 28, 1941 in Berlin) was a German sailor, museum technician, and conservator.


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