Ballot Archive

09 Apr 2015

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Mark Collins

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA(Hons)PhD(Cantab)

Profession or occupation

Estates archivist and historian, Parliamentary Estates Directorate

Grounds for election

Archivist and architectural historian using curated drawings to conserve the archaeology and the buildings, and to advise on the presentation and the rituals of the Palace of Westminster since 2000.Has broadcast,lectured and published, notably on the King's Table,Westminster Hall (with others) in Antiquaries Journal and widely for the Houses of Parliament. Previous archival posts at Ely Cathedral and with the Hall-Carpenter Society.Expert on nineteenth-century Gothic Revival, notably GF Bodley.

Signatories

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