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Peter Thornton is a British historian and author who was born on 8 April 1925. He is best known for his work on the history of architecture and the decorative arts. He studied at the University of Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1947 and his MA in 1950. He then went on to teach at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he was a professor from 1965 to 1990. He has written numerous books on the history of architecture and the decorative arts, including The Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400-1600 (1991), The Italian Renaissance Garden (1995), and The Italian Renaissance Palace (1999). He has also written extensively on the history of the British country house, including The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century (1985) and The British Country House in the Nineteenth Century (1989). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Age: 82 years old Height: Unknown Physical Stats: Unknown Dating/Affairs: Unknown Family: Unknown Career: Historian and Author Net Worth: Unknown

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1952

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.

1950

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).

1925

Peter Kai Thornton CBE (April 8, 1925 – February 8, 2007) was a museum curator and writer.