Peter Burman (Peter Ashley Thomas Insull Burman, MBE FSA, born Solihull, [1] 15 September 1944 [2] ) is a British architectural historian.
Peter Burman (Peter Ashley Thomas Insull Burman, MBE FSA, born Solihull, [1] 15 September 1944 [2] ) is a British architectural historian.
He studied History of Art at King's College, Cambridge. [3] In 1980 he participated in the Mural Paintings Conservation Course at ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in Rome. [4]
From 1968 to 1990 he worked for the Council for the Care of Churches (now the Church Buildings Council) serving as its General Secretary from 1977 onwards. From 1990 to 2002 he was Director of the Centre for Conservation Studies, Department of Archaeology, University of York. From 2002 to 2007, he was Director of Conservation and Property Services at the National Trust for Scotland. [4] From 2007 to 2012 he was Professor of Cultural Heritage Management at the Department of World Heritage Studies, Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus. [4] From 2012 onwards he has continued to be active as an arts and heritage consultant, for clients which have included the Duke of Buccleuch and the Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral.
He is a member of the Fabric Advisory Committee of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and its Sculpture Committee. [4] From 2013 to 2015 he was Chair of the Garden History Society for Scotland. [5] He has a special interest in the use of building limes: he founded the Building Limes Forum for the United Kingdom in 1992, and served as its Convenor from 1992 to 2000. [6] In February 2015 he was elected Vice-Chair of the Built Environment Forum for Scotland. [4] He is a Guardian of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and chair of SPAB Scotland, a founding trustee of SAVE Britain's Heritage, and a Director of Ruskin's Guild of St George. [7] He is Chairman of the Falkland Stewardship Trust, [8] Chairman of the Falkland Society, [9] and Archivist and Trustee of Hopetoun House. [4] In 2016 he was elected Chair of the Falkland Community Council. [10] He is also a Companion of the Guild of St George.
In May 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. [11] He received an MBE in the New Years Honours for 1990 as General Secretary of the Council for the Care of Churches. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate of engineering (Dr.-Ing. e.h.) in monument conservation and architectural history (Denkmalpflege und Architekturgeschichte) from the Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus. [12] He is a member of the Art Workers' Guild. [13]
In June 2019 he married Ross Burgess in a Humanist ceremony in Falkland, Fife, followed a week later by a ceremony at the Unitarian Church in Croydon [14]
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