Simon Swynfen Jervis Author & Editor

Simon Swynfen Jervis was successively Curator of Furniture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,and Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. He has written widely on furniture, interior decoration, ornament and design. Dudley Dodd had a long career with the National Trust, where he was Secretary of the Arts Panel, and has published widely on Stourhead, whose first modern guidebook he wrote in 1981, as well as guidebooks to several other National Trust houses.