Rosalind Savill
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12 May 1951
Dame Rosalind Savill | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rosalind Joy Savill 12 May 1951 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England |
| Died | 27 December 2024 (aged 73) UK |
| Education | Wycombe Abbey |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Occupation | Director of the Wallace Collection |
Dame Rosalind Joy Savill DBE FSA FBA (12 May 1951 – 27 December 2024) was a British art and museum curator.
Savill was born in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England on 12 May 1951.[1] An alumna of Wycombe Abbey[2] and the University of Leeds, Savill was first employed at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a canteen cashier. Later she was named Museum Assistant at the Wallace Collection, where she was appointed Assistant to the Director in 1978.[3] In April 1988, Savill's The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain was published in three volumes, which took her a decade to compile.[4]
In 1992, she was named Director of the Wallace Collection. She retired from that post in 2011.
Savill died from cancer on 27 December 2024, at the age of 73.[5][1][6]
