29 January 2008
The Prime Minister has re-appointed the Marchioness of Normanby as a Trustee of the National Gallery for a period of four years from 2 February 2008.
Biographical Details:
Lady Normanby is a journalist, writing literary criticism, interviews and features for a wide range of publications including The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, and the Times Literary Supplement. She was the lead feature writer for Harpers & Queen for six years. Her first book, A Rage for Rock Gardening, a biography of the 19th century gardener, Reginald Farrer, was published in 2002 and was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is currently working on a study of the 16th century poet Sir Thomas Wyatt.
This post is not remunerated.
Lady Normanby has not undertaken any political activity in the past five years.
Notes for Editors:
The National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. It contains paintings from the 13th to early 20th centuries, representing all the major European schools of painting with examples of all the major artists’ work. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free.
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