Pamela Tudor-Craig

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Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood FSA (née Wynn Reeves; born 26 June 1928) is a British mediaeval art historian. Outside of academia she is best known for her contribution to the 1986 TV series The Secret Life of Paintings and its accompanying book of the same name with Richard Foster.

She was educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art, gaining a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1952. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1958 and served on its council between 1989 and 1992. She was curator of the exhibition Richard III at the National Portrait Gallery in 1973. William Jewell College awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1983. Tudor-Craig taught at Harlaxton College in the 1980s.

She married Algernon Tudor-Craig in 1956; they had one daughter, the artist Lil Tudor-Craig, b 1960 Suffolk, but she was widowed in 1969. In 1982 she remarried Sir John Wedgwood, Bt., of the Wedgwood pottery family, but was again widowed in 1989.

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