Christopher Gallard Gilbert
Christopher Gallard Gilbert (7 September 1936 – 29 September 1998) was a British furniture historian and museum curator. He wrote on Thomas Chippendale and was a founding member of the Furniture History Society in 1964. From 1975 to 1983 he was the editor of the societies annual journal, ″Furniture History", and in 1990 he became its chairman.[1]
Gilbert was born Lancaster 7 September 1936, son of Frank Lathe Gilbert and Ruth Ainsworth and twin of Oliver Lathe Gilbert; he was twice married (two daughters; three stepsons, one stepdaughter); he died in Leeds on 29 September 1998.
Bibliography
- The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale (1978) 2 vols
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