Duncan Robinson

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Duncan Robinson, CBE, FRSA, DL, is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge and an ex-Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. He is also the Chairman of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Robinson was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield and Clare College, Cambridge^[1].

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, 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. Unusually for a Head of House, he remains the Director of Studies for both of 'his' Colleges: Magdalene College and Clare College.

Robinson retired as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2007 in order to devote more time to Magdalene College, his research and his teaching.

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• Stanley Spencer (Phaidon Press, 1993)
• The Yale Center for British Art: A Tribute to the Genius of Louis Kahn (with David Finn) (Yale University Press, 1997)
• Paul Mellon, A Cambridge Tribute (Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises, 2007)

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Preceded by Sir John Gurdon

Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge 2002 – present

Incumbent