Born Norwood, Surrey. Art and literary scholar and museum administrator. He was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 1876 to 1884, and then keeper of the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
He became a friend and mentor to Robert Louis Stevenson. Died 35 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington.
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Sir Sidney Colvin
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...
Presumably set up with the sole objective of erecting the statue, we think th...
Founded by Richardson Evans and others, to 'safeguard the amenities of the Wi...
We can find no information about this group so we guess it was short-lived an...
One of a trio of museums, the others being the Royal Observatory and the Quee...
