Peter Thornton
British writer
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| Intro | British writer | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Historian Art historian Author Writer | |
| Work field | Arts Academia Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | 8 April 1925, St Albans | |
| Death | 8 February 2007Middlesex (aged 81 years) |
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Peter Kai Thornton CBE (April 8, 1925 – February 8, 2007) was a museum curator and writer. He was keeper of furniture and woodwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London between 1966 and 1984, and curator to Sir John Soane's Museum, in Lincoln's Inn Fields between 1984 and 1995. Thornton was best known for his radical approach to the presentation of historic interiors at Ham House, Osterley Park and Apsley House.