David Barrie
(1953-), Diplomat, art historian and administrator; Director of National Art Collections Fund(Charles) David Ogilvy Barrie
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Chair of the charity Make Justice Work. Formerly in the Diplomatic Service he was Director of the Art Fund, the UK's largest independent art charity, from 1992 until 2009. He became a Trustee of the Ruskin Foundation in 1996. He was awarded a CBE in 2010 for his services to visual arts.
by Lucy Anne Dickens
chromogenic print, March 2001
NPG P948(2)
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David Barrie
23 December 2015, 18:45
Author of 'Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men who Mapped the World's Oceans', published by William Collins 2014. Fellow of the Royal Insitute of Navigation.