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 FMA FRSA DL MBE
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.

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.