Eric Fernie

Eric Campbell Fernie CBE FRSE FBA FSA (born 9 June 1939, Edinburgh) ^[1] is a Scottish art historian.

Education

Fernie was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand (BA Hons Fine Arts) and the University of London (Academic Diploma). ^[2]

Career

Fernie has had a long career in the academic and art worlds, occupying a number of important posts. He was Director of the Courtauld Institute from 1995 to 2003 and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2004 to 2007.

Publications

• An Introduction to the Communar and Pitcaner Rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1973. (With A.B. Whittingham)
• The Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons, 1983.
• Medieval Architecture and its Intellectual Context, 1990.
• An Architectural History of Norwich Cathedral, 1993.
• Art History and its Methods, 1995.
• The Architecture of Norman England, 2000.

References

1. Debrett's People of Today, 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
2. ‘FERNIE, Prof. Eric Campbell’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edition, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010. Accessed 5 Nov 2011.

External links

• Tributes to Fernie on leaving the Courtauld. Archived here.

Academic offices
Preceded by Michael Kauffmann	Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art 1995 to 2003	Succeeded by James Cuno