Terence Suthers

Terence "Terry" Suthers MBE FMA FRSA DL is a British conservator, museum curator and director. He is a Deputy lieutenant for the County of West Yorkshire.

Terence Suthers

Terence Suthers at the opening of the Yorkshire Museum's new Roman gallery in May 1985
Occupation
  • Archaeologist
  • Museum curator
Academic work
Institutions
  • Yorkshire Museum
  • Harewood House
  • York Archaeological Trust


Career

Trained initially as a conservator and archaeology curator with Hull and East Riding Museum before benefiting from a Churchill Fellowship to study heritage restoration projects in Italy and North Africa.[1]

Suthers was appointed Curator of the Yorkshire Museum on 6 April 1983, succeeding Michael Clegg in the post.[2] He was subsequently the Assistant Director and Head of Public Services at the Science Museum, London, from 1987-1992, then Executive Director of Harewood House from 1992 to 2007, served for ten years as Chairman of York Archaeological Trust (2007-2017) and is currently the a Vice Chairman of Yorkshire Film Archive (2002–present).[1]

In 2005 he was made a Deputy lieutenant for the County of West Yorkshire and in 2012 was awarded the MBE for Services to the Heritage and Museums in Yorkshire.[3][4]

Publications

  • Suthers, T. 1975. Hull old and new. Wakefield : EP Publishing.
  • Buddle, A. and Suthers, T. 1979. Cutting betel in style. Yorkshire and Humberside Museum and Art Gallery Service.
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References

  1. "Terence Suthers MBE". York Civic Trust. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  2. "Terence Suthers BA ASIAD AMA, Curator of the Yorkshire Museum, York". Yorkshire Philosophical Society: Annual Report of the year 1983. p. 21.
  3. "Terry Suthers, MBE FMA FRSA DL". West Yorkshire Lieutenancy. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  4. "Queen's birthday honour's list: MBE". The Guardian. 11 June 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
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