1. John Pope-Hennessy was the elder of two sons; his younger brother, James Pope-Hennessy, was a noted writer.
11 Facts About John Pope-Hennessy
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John Pope-Hennessy was educated at Downside School, a Catholic boarding school for boys, in Stratton-on-the-Fosse.
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John Pope-Hennessy then went on to Balliol College, Oxford, where he specialised in modern history.
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John Pope-Hennessy served as the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1967 and 1973, and then as director of the British Museum from 1974 until 1976.
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Traumatised by the murder of his gay brother James in January 1974, John Pope-Hennessy left the British Museum after only two years as director.
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John Pope-Hennessy combined this curatorial post with a professorship at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
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John Pope-Hennessy was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1974 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.
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John Pope-Hennessy served on the boards of the Venice in Peril Fund and Save Venice Inc.
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John Pope-Hennessy wrote a foreword for Helmut Gernsheim's photographies of Beautiful London, contributed to a book on Westminster Abbey, and wrote an autobiography that was published in 1991.
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John Pope-Hennessy is buried in the Cimitero degli Allori in Florence.
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John Pope-Hennessy's gravestone includes a quote from the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the Bible.