19 Facts About Geoffrey Munn

Geoffrey Munn is best known as one of the specialists on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

Geoffrey Munn became the managing director of London jewellers Wartski, where he had worked since the age of 19; his specialisation is jewellery, especially that of Fortunato Pio Castellani, Carlo Giuliano and Peter Carl Faberge.

Geoffrey Munn has a keen interest in every aspect of history and has a collection of ancient flint tools he has found in the Southwold area of Suffolk.

Geoffrey Munn has appeared in several television sequences of "mudlarking" in the Thames at Westminster.

Geoffrey Munn is fascinated by both literature and art and has written a number of books, including Southwold, an Earthly Paradise, a pictorial history of his home town.

Geoffrey Munn is a trustee of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

Geoffrey Munn has curated many exhibitions, including Tiaras at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2002.

Geoffrey Munn is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Linnean Society of London and The Royal Society of Arts.

Geoffrey Munn is a Freeman of the City of London and was Fourth Warden of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.

Geoffrey Munn is a member of the Garrick Club, The Arts Club, the Academy Club and the Sailor's Reading Room, Southwold.

Geoffrey Munn has written a history of his firm called "Wartski- The First One Hundred and Fifty Years".

In 2023 Geoffrey Munn published a memoir under the title 'A Touch of Gold - The reminiscences of Geoffrey Munn'.

Geoffrey Munn has made a survey of the work of the contemporary Italian jeweller and goldsmith Giovanni Corvaja.

Geoffrey Munn was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Years Honours list for services to charity in the United Kingdom.

In 2016 Geoffrey Munn was appointed Chairman of the Friends of The British Antique Dealers' Association Trust.

Geoffrey Munn was born in Hastings, East Sussex in April 1953.

Geoffrey Munn married Caroline in 1983 and the couple have two sons.

Geoffrey Munn played himself in Joe's Palace, a film by Stephen Poliakoff.

Geoffrey Munn is an Ambassador for the charity Pancreatic Cancer UK and patron of The Brain Tumour Charity, the Royal Osteoporosis Society and Sotterley Chapel Preservation Trust.