Simon Swynfen Jervis Explained
Simon Swynfen Jervis (born 9 January 1943)[1] is a British museum director and art historian.[2]
His first museum post was at what is now known as Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in 1964, later joining the Department of Furniture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 1966.[3] He was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1995,[4] and Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust from 1995 to 2002.
He served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 1995 to 2001. In 2021, he was elected president of the Furniture History Society.
Selected publications
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen (ed.). The Alphabet Book of Amos Lewis: An Elizabethan calligraphic manuscript revealed. Cambridge, John Adamson, 2024
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. British and Irish Inventories: A list and bibliography of published transcriptions of secular inventories. Leeds, Furniture History Society, 2010
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. The Facts on File Dictionary of Design and Designers. New York, Facts on File, 1984
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. High Victorian Design. Woodbridge, Boydell, 1983
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. John Stafford of Bath and his Interior Decorations. Haywards Heath, Furniture History Society, 2009
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. The Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1984
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. Printed Furniture Designs before 1650. Leeds, W. S. Maney & Sons Ltd for the Furniture History Society, 1974
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen (editor and translator). A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 2019
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen, and Dudley Dodd. Roman Splendour, English Arcadia: The English taste for Pietre Dure and the Sixtus cabinet at Stourhead. London, Philip Wilson, 2015
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen, Swynfen Jervis MP, 1797−1867: Radical Landowner, Poetaster, Pteridologist and Shakespearian. Stafford, Staffordshire Record Society, 2020
- Jervis, Simon Swynfen. Victorian Furniture. London, Sydney, Ward Lock, 1968
Notes and References
- Web site: Simon Swynfen Jervis, Esq, FSA Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today . Debretts.com . 1943-01-09 . 2014-05-14.
- "Jervis, Simon Swynfen", Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 accessed 5 March 2013
- https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp59835/simon-swynfen-jervis National Portrait Gallery
- Web site: Simon Swynfen Jervis . Our Directors . . UK . 1 November 2024 .