Pamela Tudor-Craig
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Pamela Tudor-Craig, Lady Wedgwood FSA (née Wynn Reeves; born 26 June 1928) is a British mediaeval art historian. Outside of academia she is best known for her contribution to the 1986 TV series The Secret Life of Paintings and its accompanying book of the same name with Richard Foster
Richard Foster
Richard Foster may refer to:* R. F. Foster , card-game writer* Richard Foster , Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives * Richard Foster...

. Tudor-Craig also participated in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

's 1976 series Second Verdict
Second Verdict
Second Verdict was a six-part BBC television series from 1976, of dramatised documentaries in which classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history were re-appraised by fictional police officers...

and ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's 1984 production The Trial of Richard III.

She was educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...

, gaining a BA in 1949 and a PhD in 1952. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1958 and served on its council between 1989 and 1992. She was curator of the exhibition Richard III
Richard III of England
Richard III was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty...

 at the National Portrait Gallery in 1973. William Jewell College
William Jewell College
William Jewell College is a private, four-year liberal arts college of 1,100 undergraduate students located in Liberty, Missouri, U.S. It was founded in 1849 by members of the Missouri Baptist Convention and other civic leaders, including Robert S. James, a Baptist minister and father of the...

 awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1983. Tudor-Craig taught at Harlaxton College
Harlaxton Manor
Harlaxton Manor, built in 1837, is a manor house in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England. Its architecture, which combines elements of Jacobean and Elizabethan styles with symmetrical Baroque massing, renders the mansion unique among surviving Jacobethan manors....

 in the 1980s.

She married James Tudor-Craig, son of Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig
Algernon Tudor-Craig
Major Sir Algernon Tudor-Craig KBE FSA was a British Army officer, heraldist and author of various works on art history, especially armorial porcelain.His first wife, whom he married in 1898, was Emily Mary Lukin...

 (1873-1943) in 1956; they had one daughter, the artist Lil Tudor-Craig
Lil Tudor-Craig
Elizabeth J. "Lil" Tudor-Craig , is a British conservationist, environmental artist, and literary illustrator from Suffolk. She is known for her murals and watercolour paintings, specialising in finely detailed impressionist work, presenting a wide-ranging knowledge of wild botanical species and...

, b 1960 Suffolk, but she was widow
Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...

ed in 1969. In 1982 she married Sir John Wedgwood, Bt.
John Hamilton Wedgwood
Sir John Hamilton Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet TD , British politician and industrialist.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Wedgwood was the son of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet and his wife Iris Veronica Pawson, daughter of Albert Henry Pawson. He was a great-great-great-grandson of the master potter Josiah...

, of the Wedgwood pottery family, but was again widowed in 1989.
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