Hidden Histories: Browse by Name
This option lets you explore aspects of the Fitzwilliam Museum's collections through some of the people associated with the objects - academics, artists, collectors, spies, travellers and writers.
Who was Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, the founder of the Museum? Which two illustrators and collectors were depicted in a painting, now in the Fitzwilliam, as medieval saints?
Select a letter and scroll through the portraits using the left and right arrows (this is best viewed with Flash Player plug-in - click here for free download if required).
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Rudolph Ackermann
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Sultan Ali bin Salah Al-Qu'aiti
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George Basevi FRS
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John Bellany CBE RA
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Alan Bennett
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Helaine Blumenfeld
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Anthony Blunt
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Hon. Mildmay Thomas Boscawen
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Richard Bray ARBS
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A.S. Byatt
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Luigi Celotti
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Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
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Hans Coper
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Edmund de Waal FRSA
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Charles Fairfax Murray
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Richard 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam
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Godfrey St George Montague Gompertz CBE
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Christophe Gordon-Brown
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Antony Gormley OBE RA
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Susanna Gregory
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Philip Grierson
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Anne Hull Grundy
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Rebecca Harvey
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Christopher Hogwood CBE
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Joanna Howells
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John Hubbard
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Diane Hudson
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Nathan Huxtable
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Montague Rhodes James OM
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David Kinloch
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Patrick Lennon
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James Lin
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Harry Meader
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Paul Mellon KBE
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Adrian Mitchell
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Richard Mortimer
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Jill Paton Walsh CBE
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Ernest Saville Peck
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John Pratt
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Roddy Regan
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Charles de Sousy Ricketts
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Dame Lucie Rie
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Henry Rothschild
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Christina Rozeik
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Ruth E. Scott
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Charles Haslewood Shannon
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Michelle Spring
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Robin Stemp
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Rebecca Stott
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Claire Tomalin FRSL
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Marina Warner FBA RRSL
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Peter Whitehead
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Mademoiselle Zacharie (Anne Bernard)
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Featured Hidden History
Anne Hull Grundy (1926-1984)
An important benefactor, Anne Hull Grundy presented many pieces of jewellery to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Inspired by her parents, she started collecting when she was eleven. Initially a welcome escape from boring summer days spent in Cheltenham and Harrogate, it became a lifelong passion. Find out more