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David Duncan Robinson, C.B.E., F.R.S.A., D.L., was the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge until the end of 2012; on 1 January 2013 the new master, Rowan Williams took up his role. He is also the Chairman of the Henry Moore Foundation and was, until 2007, the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. He has been made a fellow of Magdalene College, upon the end of his term as master.
Robinson was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield and Clare College, Cambridge.
Robinson is a leading authority on British art from the eighteenth century onwards. He joined the Fitzwilliam Museum as its director in 1995 upon returning to the United Kingdom from Yale, where he was an honorary member of Manuscript Society, taking a Professorial Fellowship at Clare College at the same time. He is also a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cambridgeshire and a trustee of the Royal Collection.
In 2002, Robinson was appointed Master of Magdalene College following the retirement of Sir John Gurdon. In 2005 he was appointed as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. [More at Wikipedia]
Born
June 27th, 1943 in (Age 81)
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2024/07/01
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2021/04/09
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2020/10/23
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