Claire Donovan

Claire Marie Donovan FSA
Born	(1948-02-12)12 February 1948
Died	5 June 2019(2019-06-05) (aged 71)
Occupation(s)	Lecturer Academic Historian
Academic background
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford University of East Anglia
Thesis	The early development of the illustrated book of hours in England, c. 1240-1350

Claire Marie Donovan FSA RA FRHistS (née Baker; 12 February 1948 – 5 June 2019) was a British historian and academic.

Career

Donovan was educated in Oxford before studying an undergraduate degree in English and History of Art at the University of London. She gained a Postgraduate diploma from Somerville College, Oxford and a PhD from the University of East Anglia. Her PhD subject, The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350, was published as a book in 1981.

She was vice principal of Dartington College of Arts, an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter, a Council member of the Devon History Society, a Trustee of Poltimore House Trust and Chair of the South West Association of Preservation Trusts.

Select publications

• Baker, C. M. 1981. The Early Development of the Illustrated book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350.
• Donovan, C. 1991. The de Brailes Hours: shaping the book of hours in 13th-century Oxford. London, British Library.
• Donovan, C. and Bushnell, J. 1996. John Everett Millais, 1829–1896: a centenary exhibition. Southampton, Media Arts Faculty Institute.
• Donovan, C. 2000. The Winchester Bible. Winchester, Winchester Cathedral.
• Donovan, C. and Hemmings, J. 2014. "Evidence for Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding at Poltimore House: Interpreting Edmund Prideaux’s Drawings, 1716 and 1727", The Devon Historian 83.