Francis Carnwath
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
Francis Anthony Armstrong Carnwath
Biography
Francis Carnwath began his career with Barings Bank, rising to become a director. Then he served as deputy director of the Tate Gallery 1990-1994 where he played a leading role in the identification of the Bankside Power Station as the home of the new Tate Modern gallery.[2] In 1995 he became Acting Director of the National Lottery Heritage Fund. He then served as Director of the newly created Greenwich Foundation for the Royal Naval College from 1997 to 2002, with the task of securing financial stability and readying the Palace buildings, vacated by the Royal Navy, for occupation by Greenwich University and Trinity College of Music.
Alongside this, Carnwath was chairman of several charitable organisations. He was Trustee and later Deputy Chairman of
He was Trustee and later Chairman of the Phillimore Estates, London, from 1983 to 2015.
He was appointed a
Personal life
He was the eldest of six children of the banker Sir Andrew Carnwath, KCVO, DL and his first wife Kathleen Marianne (née Armstrong). A younger brother is Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Carnwath married Penelope Rose (they later separated); they had two daughters and one son.[3]
In 2010, Carnwath and his partner Caroline Wiseman founded the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, a visual arts venue in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
References
- 'CARNWATH, Francis Anthony Armstrong', Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 22 May 2011
- http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/c/17745/Francis%20Anthony%20Armstrong+CARNWATH.aspx
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