Anthony O'Neil
Seven trustees will join the Wallace Collection board following their appointment by the Prime Minister.
MARCUS AGIUS, ALEXANDRA SHULMAN and DAVINDER TOOR each began four-year terms on 22 January 2024, while SPENCER DE GREY, JOSEPHINE FITZALAN-HOWARD, LARRY KEITH and JAKYUNG MOON LAMBERT commenced five-year terms on the same date.
Agius worked as a banker at Lazard LLC and Barclays plc, becoming Chairman of the British Bankers Association. For a decade he was Chair of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and spent 15 years as Chair of the Kew Foundation.
A writer and journalist, Shulman was Editor of GQ when it launched in the UK in 1990 and later became Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue for 25 years. She was previously a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and is currently a Vice President of The London Library.
Toor, who runs his own pharmaceutical business, is a collector of Sikh art and has consulted with institutions such as the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Wallace Collection. He currently lectures on the ‘Arts of the Royal Sikh Courts’ and ‘Sikh Painting and Manuscripts’ for the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Arts of Asia course.
As an architect, de Grey has overseen projects including the Great Court at the British Museum, Glasshouse International Centre for Music, the Great Glasshouse at the Botanic Garden of Wales, and the reworking of Trafalgar Square. He has also served as a trustee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and The Building Centre, subsequently becoming its Chairman.
Fitzalan-Howard worked in the Old Master Paintings department at Sotheby’s for a decade, was a picture specialist on the Antiques Roadshow and was Director of dealers Colnaghi and Bernheimer before founding JFH Fine Art Consultancy in 1994. She is an Ambassador for the National Opera Studio and a Royal Opera House Foundation Advisory Committee member.
Keith has led the Conservation Department at the National Gallery since 2010. He is an external examiner for post-graduate painting conservation courses at the Courtauld Institute and has been a member of advisory committees for restoration projects at institutions including the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre.
Previously an investment banker, Lambert has worked for several charities, including as Chair of the Development Board of St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She founded and chairs Tutor The Nation, which supports education by providing online tutoring to children in rural isolation and urban deprivation areas.