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Alan Charles Nelson Borg CBE KStJ FSA FRHistS (born 21 January 1942) is a British historian. He is a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and librarian of the Order of St John.

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Early life

Borg was born [1] to Charles John Nelson Borg and Frances Mary Olive Hughes. [2]

He was educated at Westminster School, where he remains an active director and trustee of the Westminster School Society. [3] From Westminster he went up to Brasenose College, University of Oxford, where he was awarded MA. Postgraduate studies took him to the Courtauld Institute of Art. His doctorate thesis was 'Architectural Decoration of the Romanesque Period in Provence', for which he was awarded a PhD in 1970. [4] A book based on it was published in 1972. [5]

Career

After academic work in various higher educational institutions in France and the USA Borg returned to London. Curatorship became central to his work, when in 1970, on his return from the United States, he took up the post of Assistant Keeper at the Tower of London's Royal Armouries, a post he held until 1978. His next appointment was that of Keeper at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia. Borg's move into museum management came in 1982 when he was appointed Director-General of the Imperial War Museum, [6] London. In 1995 Borg was appointed Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, serving in this post until 2001. In 2010 he became a Visiting Professor at the University of Reading. [7] [8]

Photography

Photographs attributed to Borg are held in the Conway Library [9] at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The collection contains glass and film negatives as well as prints principally of architecture and sculpture.

Membership of boards and committees

Borg was a member of a number of committees and boards throughout his career, including:

Awards

Selected written works

Personal life

In 1964, Borg married Anne Blackmore in Totnes, Devon. [15] The couple were later divorced and in 1976 he married Caroline Sylvia Hill In Chelsea, London. [16]

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