Simon Swynfen Jervis (born 9 January 1943) is a British museum director and art historian. His first museum post was at what is now known as Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in 1964, later joining the Department of Furniture at the
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and ...
, London, in 1966.National Portrait Gallery sitter in portrait by Lucy Anne Dickens. He was Director of the
Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Vi ...
, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1995, and Historic Buildings Secretary of the
National Trust
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from 1995 to 2002.
He served as president of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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* Jervis, Simon Swynfen. ''British and Irish Inventories: A list and bibliography of published transcriptions of secular inventories''. Leeds, Furniture History Society, 2010
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen. ''The Facts on File Dictionary of Design and Designers''. New York,
Facts on File
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, 1984
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen. ''High Victorian Design''. Woodbridge, Boydell, 1983
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen. ''John Stafford of Bath and his Interior Decorations''. Haywards Heath, Furniture History Society, 2009
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers''. Harmondsworth,
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.W. S. Maney & Sons Ltd for the Furniture History Society, 1974
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen. ''Victorian Furniture''. London, Sydney,
Ward Lock
Ward, Lock & Co. was a publishing house in the United Kingdom that started as a partnership and developed until it was eventually absorbed into the publishing combine of Orion Publishing Group.
History
Ebenezer Ward and George Lock started a p ...
, 1968
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen (editor and translator). ''A Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture: Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations''. Los Angeles,
Getty Research Institute
The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".
, 2019
* Jervis, Simon Swynfen, and Dudley Dodd. ''Roman Splendour, English Arcadia: The English taste for
Pietre Dure
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Stourhead
Stourhead () is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset. The estate is about northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed ...