Clarke, Caspar Purdon, Sir, 1846-1911

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1865-1867 office of works; 1867-1874 works department of the South Kensington Museum; 1874-1876 superintendent of works for the British consular buildings in Tehran; 1876 purchasing tour for the South Kensington Museum to Turkey, Syria and Greece; 1878 architect of the Indian section and commercial agent to the Indian government at the Paris Exhibition; 1879 purchasing tour for the South Kensington Museum to Spain, Italy and Germany; 1881-1882 special commissioner in India; 1883 CIE; 1883-1892 keeper of the India Museum at South Kensington; 1892 keeper of the art collections; 1893 fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; 1893-1895 assistant director; 1896-1905 director of the South Kensington Museum (from 1899 Victoria and Albert Museum); 1899 commissioned to build the Indian hall at Elvedon, Suffolk, with William Young; 1900 royal commissioner at the Paris Exhibition; 1902 knighthood; 1904 royal commissioner at the St Louis Exhibition; 1906-1910 director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York

Epithet: museum director and architect

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000112

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creatorOf Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Office of the Secretary. Office of the Secretary records, 1870-[ongoing]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Johnstone, Margaret Taylor, d. 1943. A collection of lace classification, 1937 / compiled for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Margaret Taylor Johnstone. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Norton family. Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920 Houghton Library
referencedIn TWENTY-TWO LETTERS (some written in French) chiefly from English or French authors and artists to Emilia Frances, née Strong, wife successively of the Rev. Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford (1861-1884), and of Sir Charles Wentworth Dil..., 1884-1903 British Library
referencedIn A collection of lace classification, [ca. 1906]. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Weir, John Ferguson, 1841-1926. John Ferguson Weir papers, 1838-1957 (inclusive), 1861-1928 (bulk). Yale University Library
referencedIn Photographs, 1896-1941, n.d. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Vol. XLV (ff. 161). 1904-1905.includes:ff. 1, 3 Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, KCB: Letters to Sir C. Dilke: 1904.ff. 5, 67 James Keir Hardie, socialist and labour leader: Letters to Sir C. Dilke: 1894-1908, n.d.ff. 6, 11 Lieutenant-General Sir W..., 1904-1905 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir George Birdwood, medical scientist, botanist, promoter of Arts and Crafts movement, and Indologist, 1876-1902 British Library
creatorOf Clarke, Caspar Purdon, Sir, 1846-1911. Letter signed : to Pierpont Morgan, 1910 Dec. 14. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Clarke, Caspar Purdon, Sir, 1846-1911. Letter signed : to Pierpont Morgan, 1909 Dec. 7. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Beals, Jessie Tarbox. Photographs, 1896-1941 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Vol. XLIII (ff. 262). 1897-1900.includes:f. 4 Lord George Francis Hamilton, PC; MP: Letters to Sir C. Dilke: 1883-1897.f. 6 Henry Norman, 1st Baronet 1915; journalist; Knight 1906: Letter to Sir C. Dilke: 1897.f. 7 Sir Francis Lockward, MP: Dr..., 1897-1900 British Library
creatorOf Greene, Belle da Costa. Copy of letter : from Belle Greene, 1911 Jan. 5. Pierpont Morgan Library.
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Birth 1846-12-21

Death 1911-03-29

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