6 March 2002
The Queen has been pleased to re-appoint Professor Caroline Barron, Professor Christopher Smout and Miss Rosemary Dunhill as Commissioners of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Professor Barron and Rosemary Dunhill have been re-appointed for a period of four years and Professor Smout for a period of three years from 15 February 2002.
Biographical Notes
Professor Caroline Barron is Professor of the History of London and Dean of the Graduate School at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. She is a Councillor of the London Record Society and has been on the Editorial Board of the History of Parliament since 1988. She has taught history at London University since 1964 and is a medievalist who has very close connections with archivists and historians.
Professor Christopher Smout, recently retired as Director of the Institute for Environmental History at the University of St. Andrews. He is Historiographer Royal in Scotland and a former member of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
Miss Rosemary Dunhill is the former county archivist of Hampshire and a former secretary of the National Council on Archives. In 1996 she was awarded the Society of Archivists Ellis Prize for contributions to Archives.
None of the appointees has carried out any significant political activity in the last five years. Commissioners of the Historical Manuscripts Commission are not remunerated.
Notes to the Editor
- The Historical Manuscripts Commission aims to locate and record manuscripts, records and archives (apart from public records), to advise on their preservation and storage and to assist those wishing to use them.
- Appointments to the Commission are made by HM The Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister following advice from the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
- The other members of the Commission are :
The Right Honourable Lord Bingham of Cornhill (Chairman):
- Sir Patrick Cormack
- Dr Susan Davies
- Mrs Althaea Dundas-Bekker
- Sir Matthew Farrer GCVO
- Sir John Sainty KCB
- The Earl of Scarbrough
- The Very Reverend Henry Stapleton
- Sir Keith Thomas
- Professor Peter Clarke
-
Victor W Gray Esq
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