Boase, T. S. R. (Thomas Sherrer Ross) (1898–1974). Second director of the Courtauld Institute of Art (1937–47); president of Magdalen College (1947–68).
Bober, Harry (1915–1988). Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1954–88); founding member and first secretary (1956–59) of the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA).
Boyd-Carpenter, John (1908–1998). Member of Parliament (1945–72); chief secretary of H.M. Treasury and Paymaster General (1962–64).
Brown, Julian (1923–1987). Professor of palaeography, King’s College London (1961–84).
Bridgewater, Bentley (1911–1996). Secretary of the British Museum (1948–73).
Clark, Sir Kenneth (later Lord) (1903–1983). Director of the National Gallery, London (1934–45); Slade Professor at Oxford University (1946–49); chairman of the Arts Council (1953–60); broadcaster (1954–66).
Dodwell, C. R. (Charles Reginald) (1922–1994). Librarian, fellow, and lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge (1958–66); Pilkington Chair in the History of Art at Manchester University (1966–89).
Francis, Sir Frank (1901–1988). Secretary of the British Museum (1946–48); director and principal librarian of the British Museum (1959–68).
Freeman, Margaret (1899–1980). Lecturer, then assistant and associate curator of the Cloisters (1928–55); head curator of the Cloisters (1955–65).
Gardner, Stephen (1948–1991). Architectural historian with a PhD from Princeton University; taught at Columbia University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gómez-Moreno, Carmen (1914–2008). Assistant curator in the Medieval Department of the Cloisters (1956–73); curator-in-charge, Department of Medieval Art (1973–78) of the Cloisters; retired as curator in 1984.
Green, Rosalie, (1917–2012). Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University (1951–82).
Hamel, Christopher de (b. 1950). Worked at Sotheby’s in the Department of Medieval Manuscripts (1975–2000); academic librarian and author.
Harris, Sir Ronald (1913–1995). Private secretary to Secretary of the Cabinet (1939–43), second crown estate commissioner (1955–60); third secretary of H.M. Treasury (1960–64).
Hohler, Christopher (1917–1997). Medievalist at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Hoving, Thomas (1931–2009). Associate curator and then curator (1959–66) in the Medieval Department of the Cloisters; director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967–77).
Knowles, David (1896–1974). Benedictine monk; Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge (1954–63).
Lasko, Peter (1924–2003). Assistant keeper in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum (1950–65); professor of visual art at the University of East Anglia (1965–74); director of the Courtauld Institute of Art (1974–85).
Lee, Sherman (1918–2008). Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958–83).
Mersmann, Wiltrud (1919–2022). Art historian (wife of Ante Topić Mimara).
Meyer, Erich (1897–1967). Scientific assistant at the Kunstgewerbemuseum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (1927–41) and later curator at the museum (1941–47); director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (1947–61).
Milliken, William M. (1889–1978). Assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1916–17); curator (1919–30) and then director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1930–58).
Müller, Theodor (1905–1996). Worked at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (1928–68) and was director of the museum from 1948.
Mütherich, Florentine (1915–2015). Art historian at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich.
Pächt, Otto (1902–1988). Visiting professor at Princeton University (1956–57), then at New York University (1956–57), and as reader at Oxford University; professor at the University of Vienna (1963–72); director of the Department of Manuscripts of the Austrian National Library (1969).
Parker, Elizabeth C. (b. 1931). Professor emerita at Fordham University.
Parsons, Harold W. (1882–1965). Art historian and dealer.
Pope-Hennessy, John (1913–1994). Keeper of the Department of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1954–67) and then director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (1967–74); director of the British Museum (1974–77); consultative chairman to the Department of European Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1977–86).
Pretty, Edith May (1883–1942). Owner of the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, site of the famous early Anglo-Saxon ship burial.
Randall, Richard (1926–1997). Assistant curator and then associate curator of medieval art at the Cloisters (1953–59); assistant curator of decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1959–64); assistant director and then director of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (1964–81).
Rorimer, Kay (Katherine) Serrell (1908–2000). Worked in the library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was a researcher at the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University (wife of James Rorimer).
Rorimer, James (1905–1966). Assistant curator, then associate curator, then curator in the Department of Medieval Art at the Cloisters (1927–55); chief of Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section of the Seventh United States Army, Western Military District (1944–45); director of the Cloisters (1949–55); director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1955–66).
Schnitzler, Hermann (1905–1976). Director of the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne (1953–70).
Swarzenski, Hanns (1903–1985). Studied in Freiburg, Berlin, and Bonn; worked at the state art museums in Berlin (1929–39); curator of decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1956–73) (son of Georg Swarzenski).
Topić Mimara, Ante (1898–1987). Dealer and first recorded owner of the Cloisters Cross.
Turner, D. H. (Derek) (1931–1985). Assistant keeper and then deputy keeper of the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum (1956–73); curator at the British Library (1973–85).
Volbach, Friedrich (Fritz) (1892–1988). Worked at the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin (now the Bode Museum), in the Vatican library, and as professor at the Papal Institute for Christian Archaeology; later worked as director of the antiquities museum in Mainz (post-war–1958).
Wormald, Francis (1904–1972). Assistant keeper of the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum (1927–49); chair of palaeography at Kings College, London (1950–60); director of the Institute of Historical Research (1960–67).
Zarnecki, George (1915–2008). Conway Librarian (1949–59) and then deputy director (1961–74) at the Courtauld Institute of Art; retired from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1982; co-founder of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland.