Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

The Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the head of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a post currently held by Mark Jones. He is responsible for that institution's general administration and reports its accounts to the British Government. The actual governance of the Museum, however, is delegated to its Board of Trustees; these are appointed individually by the British Prime Minister. [1]

Director	Post held	Served
Sir Henry Cole (1808-82)	Organised and conducted the two museums from which the Victoria and Albert Museum grew; the Museum of Oriental Art and the South Kensington Museum	1852 – 1873
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, KCP, KCMG, CIE (1828–94)	Director of the South Kensington Museum	1874 – 1893
John Henry Middleton (1846–96)	Director of the Art Museum (Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum)	1893 – 1896
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke (1846–1911)	Director of the Art Museum (Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum)	1896 – 1905
Arthur Banks Skinner (1861–1911)	Director of the Art Museum (Division of the Victoria and Albert Museum)	1905 – 1908
Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith,[1] KCVO (1859–1944)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1909 – 1924
Sir Eric MacLagan, CBE, FSA (1879–1951)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1924 – 1945
Sir Leigh Ashton, FSA (1897–1983)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1945 – 1955
Sir Trenchard Cox , CBE, MA, FSA, FMA (1905–95)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1956 – 1966
Sir John Pope-Hennessy, CBE, FBA, FSA (1913–94)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1967 – 1973
Sir Roy Strong (b.1935)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1973 – 1987
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll(b.1938)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1987 – 1995
Dr Alan Borg, CBE (b.1942)	Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum	1995 – 2001
Sir Mark Jones (b.1951)	Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum	2001 – 2011
Professor Martin Roth	Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum	2011 - present

References

1. ^ London Gazette, p. 10197. 22 October 1920.