Introduction
Terence "Terry" Suthers MBE FMA FRSA DL is a British conservator, museum curator and director. He is a Deputy lieutenant for the County of West Yorkshire.
Career
Trained initially as a conservator and archaeology curator with Hull and East Riding Museum before benefiting from a Churchill Fellowship to study heritage restoration projects in Italy and North Africa.
Suthers was appointed Curator of the Yorkshire Museum on 6 April 1983, succeeding Michael Clegg in the post. He was subsequently the Assistant Director and Head of Public Services at the Science Museum, London, from 1987-1992, then Executive Director of Harewood House from 1992 to 2007, served for ten years as Chairman of York Archaeological Trust (2007-2017) and is currently the a Vice Chairman of Yorkshire Film Archive (2002–present).
In 2005 he was made a Deputy lieutenant for the County of West Yorkshire and in 2012 was awarded the MBE for Services to the Heritage and Museums in Yorkshire.
Publications
- Suthers, T. 1975. Hull old and new. Wakefield : EP Publishing.
- Buddle, A. and Suthers, T. 1979. Cutting betel in style. Yorkshire and Humberside Museum and Art Gallery Service.