List of keepers and curators of the Yorkshire Museum

The keepers are professional curators and related academics. When the museum was founded there was one Keeper of the museum supported by the Sub-Curator and various Honorary Curators.^[1] The last Keeper of the Museum was George Willmot in 1970, after which time each department in the museum had its own keeper and the museum was run by one curator. Since the founding of York Museums Trust in 2002, each department has been led by a curator and there is no longer a role of keeper.

Keepers and Curators of the Yorkshire Museum

Name	Title	Dates in Post	Image	References
John Phillips	Keeper of the museum	1826–1844		[2]
Henry Baines	Sub-Curator	1829–1870		[3]
William Hincks	Curator of Botany	1827–1838		[1]
Charles Wellbeloved	Honorary Curator of Antiquities	1823–1858
Thomas Allis	Honorary Curator of Ornithology Honorary Curator of Comparative Anatomy	1835–1839 1839–1875		[1]
Edward Charlesworth	Keeper of the museum	1844–1858		[1]
William Hey	Honorary Curator of Insects and Crustacea	1850-1882
John Kenrick	Honorary Curator of Library and Manuscripts Honorary Curator of Antiquities	1850-1856 1856-1878		[4]
William Dallas	Keeper of the museum	1858–1868		[1]
Charles Wakefield	Keeper of the museum, Honorary Curator of Numismatics	1870–1878
Rev Canon James Raine	Honorary Curator of Antiquities	1873–1896
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston	Honorary Curator of Mineralogy	1877-1907		[5]
John-Clay Purves	Keeper of the museum	1878–1880		[1]
Walter Keeping	Keeper of the museum	1880–1883
Henry Maurice Platnauer	Keeper of the museum	1883–1904		[1]
Oxley Grabham	Keeper of the museum	1904–1919
George Benson	Honorary Curator of Archaeology Honorary Curator of Numismatics	1918-1924		[6]
Thomas Boynton	Honorary Curator of Antiquities	d.1919
Walter Harvey Brook	Honorary Curator of Medieval Architecture	Early 20th Century
William Herbert St Quintin	Honorary Curator of Zoology	1922–1931
Walter Edward Collinge	Keeper of the museum	1921–1940
Reginald Wagstaffe	Keeper of the museum	1940–1950		[7]
Mary Kitson Clark	Honorary Curator of Roman Antiquities	1941–1943
Walter Douglas Hincks	Honorary Curator of Entomology (excluding lepidoptera)	1942–1947		[8][7]
George Willmot	Keeper of the museum	1950–1970		[9]
Colin Simms	Keeper of Biology	1964–1982		[1]
Barbara Pyrah	Keeper of Geology	1968–1988		[10]
Allen Butterworth	Keeper	1970–1974		[11]
Elizabeth Hartley	Keeper of Archaeology	1971–2007
Michael Clegg	Curator	1974–1982		[12]
Paul Howard	Keeper of Biology	1980s–1990s
Terence Suthers	Curator, Director[13]	1983–1987
Janetta Lambert	Keeper of Biology	c.1984
Melinda Mays	Numismatist	1984–?
Brian Hayton	Curator (latterly County Museums Officer)	1987–?
Martin Lunn	Honorary Curator of Astronomy Assistant Curator of Astronomy and Scientific Instruments (after 2002)	1989-2011		[14]
Paul Ensom	Keeper of Geology	1989-1997
Andrew Morrison	Curator of Archaeology Head of Collections	2006–2014
Camilla Nichol	Curator of Geology	Around 2007
Isla Gladstone	Curator of Natural Sciences	2009–2013
Natalie Buy	Curator of Archaeology	2014–2017
Andrew Woods	Curator of Numismatics Senior Curator	2013–2017 (as Curator of Numismatics) 2017–present (as Senior Curator)