| Description | Correspondence between Wheeler and Sir Jack Wolfenden, concerning matters relating to the British Museum, including Trustees Committee structure, appointment of Keepers, meetings of the Board of Trustees, acquisitions policy, etc. |
| AdminHistory | John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE (1906-1985) was a British educationalist. He won a scholarship to Oxford and became a don at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1929. Wolfenden was the headmaster of Uppingham (1944) and Shrewsbury (1944) and chairman of various government committees which mostly focused on education and problems with youth. He was chairman of the committee that produced the Wolfenden report recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality (published in 1957).
Wolfenden become Vice-Chancellor of University of Reading in 1950 and during this period wrote two books, 'Family Affair' and 'The Steele Age', both part of the series of 'Take Home Books'. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1942, and was knighted in 1956.
In 1969 he was appointed as Director of the British Museum, a post that he left in 1973. In 1974 he was made a life peer as Baron Wolfenden, of Westcott in Surrey. |