Peter Thornton
Peter Kai Thornton CBE (April 8, 1925 – February 8, 2007) was a museum curator and writer.The son of eminent scientist Sir (Henry) Gerard Thornton and Gerda, daughter of Kai Norregaard, of Copenhagen (and related to the actress, director and writer Eva Le Gallienne through the latter's Danish mother, journalist Julie Norregaard), Thornton was educated at Bryanston, which he left aged 14 to enrol at the de Havilland aeronautical technical school and work on the Mosquito production line at Hatfield, Hertfordshire; after serving during World War II in the Intelligence Corps, he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Danish and German (B.A. 1950).
After being assistant keeper at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and joint secretary to the National Art Collections Fund, in London, from 1952 to 1954, Thornton joined the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, serving as keeper of furniture and woodwork between 1966 and 1984, and curator to Sir John Soane's Museum, in Lincoln's Inn Fields between 1984 and 1995. Thornton was best known for his radical approach to the presentation of historic interiors at Ham House, Osterley Park and Apsley House.
His daughter, Emma Bettina, married the diplomat Peter Jay; she was Jay's second wife. Provided by Wikipedia
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Seventeenth-century interior decoration in England, France, and Holland / by Thornton, Peter
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Authentic decor : the domestic interior, 1620-1920 / by Thornton, Peter
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Sir John Soane : the architect as collector, 1753-1837 / by Thornton, Peter
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Fundamentals of engineering materials / by Thornton, Peter A.
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Fundamentals of engineering materials / by Thornton, Peter A.
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The Italian Renaissance interior, 1400-1600 / by Thornton, Peter, 1925-2007
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Form & decoration : innovation in the decorative arts, 1470-1870 / by Thornton, Peter, 1925-2007
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Everybody serves soup / by Dooley, Norah
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Everybody serves soup / by Dooley, Norah
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Everybody bakes bread / by Dooley, Norah
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Everybody bakes bread / by Dooley, Norah
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To sir, with love
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