Talking of distinguished female museum directors, I am very upset to discover that Ros Savill, the former director of the Wallace Collection, died on December 27th. without me knowing she had even been ill.
She was the nicest possible person – always cheerful, always a good ally at meetings of the Museum Directors’ Conference in the 1990s. She renovated the Wallace Collection with great independence of mind, making it more lovely than it already was. And she produced scholarly museum catalogues. A grievous loss.
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
You have probably seen this? xx Caroline
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Ros was a wonderful scholar, curator and director, and, as you imply, she could be surprisingly irreverent. A great loss.