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CodePX2770
Dates1948-1999
Person NameThackray; John Christopher (1948-1999)
SurnameThackray
ForenamesJohn Christopher
ActivityArchivist.
Education: Highgate School; BSc in Geology University College, London, 1966-69; MSc in History of Science at Imperial College, London, 1972-73; Diploma in Archive Administration, University College London, 1991-93.
Appointed to Geological Museum 1969 as exhibition development team member; seconded to National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, for 3 months to develop an exhibition on the Geology of Kenya 1980-81; transferred to Department of Public Services 1985 on merger of Geological Museum with The Natural History Museum; to Department of Library Services 1 Oct 1989 as Museum Archivist until untimely death from cancer.
Honorary Secretary, Society for the History of Natural History 1973-1997; President 1999.
Sat on the editorial board of 'Geology Today'.
Honorary Archivist to the Geological Society, 1982-1999.
Chairman, History of Geology group of the Geological Society 1993 - 1999.
Organist, founder of the Chiswick Choir 1976, conducted Museum Choir.

The Guardian Obituary available online and saved digitally
RelationshipsMarried to Sue, children Jen and Chris.
SourceObituary Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol 21 no 1 2000. Obituary in The Times, 1 June 1999.
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DF/PH/2/7/11/3Staff Photographs: Archives 
DF/PH/2/1/1/28Staff Photograph: John Christopher Thackray 
DF/PH/2/7/9/13Staff Photograph: Department of Library and Information Services - John Thackray with Roland Atkins at Christmas party 
DF/PH/14/16/13Opening of Treasures of the Earth exhibition: Princess Margaret being introduced to Geological Museum staff 
DF/PH/2/7/4/28Staff Photograph: Department of Library Services - John Thackray 
DF/LIB/609/14John Thackray, Correspondence and papers relating to National Museum of Kenya 
DF/PH/2/1/1/47Staff Photograph: John Thackray, archivist, studying bound manuscripts in the archives 
DF/ZOO/253/4/2/7Coelenterate Section 
DF/OB/20Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History, awarded to museum archivist John Thackray 
DF/DIR/933/9/22'Deaths' (including staff and Trustees) 
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