James Bettley

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James Bettley
High Sheriff of Essex
In office
2019–2020

James Bettley is a British architectural historian, whose publications include editions of the Pevsner Architectural Guides to Essex (2007), Suffolk (2015) and Hertfordshire (2019). In 2019-20 he served as High Sheriff of Essex. [1]

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Biography

James Bettley was born on 9 April 1958, son of Francis Ray Bettley [2] and his wife Jean. He attended school at Winchester College, where he was a member of the boxing team. He read Medieval and Modern Languages (French and German) at Trinity College, Oxford, including a year at the University of Vienna (BA 1980, MA 1983). In 1999 he received a PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He married Lucy Ferrar on 1 February 1986. They have three children. [3] [4] [1]

From 1980 to 1988 he worked in the drawings collection and library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) before being appointed Librarian, then Head of Education and Research, at the new Design Museum before its opening in 1989. In 1991 he returned to the RIBA as Assistant Director of the British Architectural LIbrary and then from 1997 to 2000 was Head of Collection Development at the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum. Since 2014 he has been Librarian of Chevening, Kent. He was elected an Associate of the Library Association in 1993 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2002. [4] [5]

Bettley was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1996 and a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 2013. [6] [1] In 2016 he was nominated as High Sheriff of Essex for the year 2019-2020. [7]

He was chairman of the Friends of Essex Churches Trust from 2012 to 2017 and is now chairman of their Grants Committee. He is a member (and past chairman) of the Chelmsford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches and a member of Chelmsford Cathedral Fabric Advisory Committee. He has also sat on the Church Buildings Council and chaired their Sculpture & Furnishings Committee. He is chairman of the Rural Community Council of Essex and a trustee of the Essex Heritage Trust. He has contributed sections on architecture and the built environment to successive volumes of the Victoria County History of Essex. [8] [9] [1] With Graham Watts, Julia Abel Smith, Roy Clare and Juliet Townsend, Bettley formed the Essex Women's Commemoration Project which aimed of identifying distinguished Essex women who had not received the public recognition it was felt they deserved. [10]

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