Adrian John Tinniswood FSA (born 11 October 1954) is an English

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and

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. Tinniswood studied

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and

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Southampton University , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

and was awarded an

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Leicester University , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_label ...

. He was a regional chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund (2004–10) and a member of the National Trust's Council and its Regional Committee for the South-West, and has served as a trustee on a number of boards, including the Bishop's Palace Wells, Bath Preservation Trust and the Holburne Museum. He is currently a trustee of the Leeds Castle Foundation and a member of the Cathedral Council and of the Fabric Advisory Committee, both at Wells Cathedral. Tinniswood has often acted as a

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to the

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, and has lectured at several universities in both the

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and

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, including the

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and the

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. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham's Humanities Research Institute and Director of Buckingham's Country House Studies programme. He was appointed

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(OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to heritage.

Selected works

* ''Historic Houses of the National Trust'' (1992) *''Belton House, Lincolnshire'' (1992) * ''Country Houses from the Air'' (1994) * ''Life in the English Country Cottage'' (1996) * ''Travels with Pevsner 1 &2'' (1997, 1998) * ''Visions of Power:'' ''Architecture and Ambition from Ancient Rome to Modern Paris'' (1998) * ''The Polite Tourist: A History of Country House Visiting'' First published in the UK by Basil Blackwell (1989) with a similar title, later published by the

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(1998) * ''His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren'' (2001) * ''By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London'' (2003) * ''The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England'' (2007) * ''Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean'' (2010) * ''The Rainborowes: Pirates, Puritans and a Family's Quest for the Promised Land'' (2013) * ''The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars'' (2016) *''Mount Stewart'' (2017) *''Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household'' (2018) *''The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend'' (2019) * ''The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science'' (2019) *''Hinton Ampner'' (2020) *'Noble Ambitions': The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House (2021 Jonathan Cape)

References

External links

Official website
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