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The Director of the Natural History Museum is the senior manager of the Natural History Museum, London, which was split off from the British Museum in 1881. It should not be confused with the role of Director of Science, Natural History Museum. The following list gives the first Superintendent and then the Directors of the Natural History Museum, London.Natural History Museum archive catalogue Directorate (1838-2012), Reference number: DF DIR
Superintendent of the Natural History Departments
* Sir
Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils.
Owe ...
(1881–1883)
Directors of the Natural History Museum
* Sir
William Henry Flower
Sir William Henry Flower (30 November 18311 July 1899) was an English surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an impo ...
Lazarus Fletcher
Sir Lazarus Fletcher (3 March 1854 – 6 January 1921) was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1912. Fletcher was knighted in 1916.
Fletcher was Keep ...
Terence Morrison-Scott
Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott (24 October 1908 – 25 November 1991) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Science Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in London, England.CranbrookScott, Sir Terence Charles Stu ...
(1960–1968)
* Sir
Frank Claringbull
Frank or Franks may refer to:
People
* Frank (given name)
* Frank (surname)
* Franks (surname)
* Franks, a medieval Germanic people
* Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang
Curre ...
(1968–1976)
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Ronald Henderson Hedley
Ronald Henderson Hedley CB FZS (2 November 1928 – 11 July 2006) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Natural History Museum from 1976 to 1988.
Career
Hedley was first employed at the Natural History Museum in 1955. In 1971, he w ...
(1976–1988)
* Sir
Neil Chalmers
Sir Neil Robert Chalmers (born 19 June 1942) is a British zoologist and academic. He is a former Director of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum in London, and former Warden of Wadham College, warden of Wadham College, Oxfor ...
Doug Gurr
Douglas John Gurr (born July 1964) is a British businessman, and the Director of the Natural History Museum, London. He was a global vice-president and head of Amazon UK from 2016 to 2020. He is chairman of the British Heart Foundation. He former ...