Lord Palumbo (other)
Lord Palumbo may refer to: *Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 1935), a British property developer, art collector, and former chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is the father of James Palumbo. *James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark James "Jamie" Rudolph Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark (born 6 June 1963) is a British entrepreneur and member of the House of Lords. Biography The eldest son of property developer Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo, Jamie was born in London and e ...

Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo
Peter Garth Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 20 July 1935) is a property developer and art collector. Palumbo was the last chairperson of the Arts Council of Great Britain and a life peer. He sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords from 1991 to 2019. Early life Lord Palumbo is the son of Rudolph Palumbo, himself a major property developer, and his first wife Elsie Gregory. He was educated at Scaitcliffe, at Englefield Green, Surrey, and then at Eton College and studied law and jurisprudence at Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated with a third-class degree. Career Notable property projects and homes In the 1960s Palumbo commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to build a tower in London; although it was designed, it was never built.Carol Vogel (4 October 2003)Celebrated Mies House Up for Auction''The New York Times''. In 1972 Palumbo bought Farnsworth House in the US (outside of Chicago), designed by Mies van der Rohe, to which Palumbo added the designer's furnitur ...
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