Pamela Tudor-Craig (1928–2017)

Pamela Tudor-Craig, née Wynn-Reeves, was born in London, England. Her parents were Herbert Wynn-Reeves, a conductor, and his wife Madeline Marion Brows Wynn-Reeves. She was educated at home by governesses until the age of 11, and then went to a convent boarding school.
She attended the Courtauld Institute of Art, from which she earned a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a PhD in 1952, supervised by Anthony Blunt. She became one of Britain’s most celebrated medieval art historians. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1958 and served on its council from 1989 to 1992. She determined to catalogue their entire collection of paintings, a task that took nearly six decades, helped by Bernard Nurse, Jill Franklin, and other fellows. In 2015, she was awarded the Society of Antiquaries medal for outstanding service. In the 1970s, she began to teach art history to American students on courses in England, which brought her to the British campus of the University of Evansville, located in Harlaxton Manor, deep in the Lincolnshire countryside. She had the idea to make use of the Manor to host a gathering of medievalists during the summer months -- and in July 1984, the annual Harlaxton Medieval Symposium was born. The first 10 symposia each concentrated on a different century ranging from the 11th to the 15th, but from 1994 they all focused on themes rather than centuries. She also taught at the United States International University (USIU) in London, which had locations at Dropmore Park, Berkshire and later at Ashdown Park in East Sussex.

She curated the 1973 exhibition Richard III at the National Portrait Gallery, during which she posited that the image of Richard as a villain was a result of Tudor propaganda efforts.
Outside of academia, she was best known for hosting the 1986 BBC TV series The Secret Life of Paintings and the accompanying book of the same name, co-authored with Richard Foster. She also participated in the BBC's 1976 series Second Verdict. In 1955,
she married James Tudor-Craig, with whom she had a daughter. Her husband died in 1969 and in 1982 she married Sir John Hamilton Wedgwood of the Wedgwood pottery family, becoming Lady Wedgwood.