Tim Purbrick
Timothy Purbrick | |
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| Birth name | Timothy John Gerald Stevens Purbrick |
| Born | 18 April 1964 |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Service | British army |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
| Unit | Royal Lancers |
| Commands | Cultural Property Protection Unit[1] |
| Battles / wars | Operation Desert Storm |
| Alma mater | Eton College (1982) |
| Spouse(s) |
Lady Henrietta Nevill
(m. 1991) |
| Children | 4 |
Lieutenant Colonel Timothy John Gerald Stevens Purbrick OBE VR FSA[2] (born 18 April 1964) is a British Army officer of the Royal Lancers who took part in Operation Desert Storm.[citation needed]
Early life
[edit]Purbrick was born in 1964, the son of William Purbrick.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Purbrick is the Commanding Officer of the British Cultural Property Protection Unit (CPPU),[3] which was created in September 2018[4] in order for the British government[5] to fulfil its obligations after it signed the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) in 2017.[6]
Personal life
[edit]In 1991, Purbrick married Henrietta Emily Charlotte Nevill (b. 21 June 1964), daughter of Lord Rupert Nevill, and a goddaughter of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[citation needed] Henrietta was later granted the rank of a marquess's daughter in 2003. They have four children.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Monuments Men-style military unit formed to stop raiders of the lost art | Royal Navy".
- ^ "Timothy PURBRICK". thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ^ "Monuments Men-style military unit formed to stop raiders of the lost art | Royal Navy". www.royalnavy.mod.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ Squires, Nick (11 October 2018). "British Army starts recruiting for revived Monuments Men unit to protect art and archaeology in war". The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Bevan, Robert (1 December 2019). "The UK's Monuments Men: culture gets its own army". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "How the UK has revived its Monuments Men". theartnewspaper.com. 21 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
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