Charles Sebag-Montefiore, Esq, FSA

Career: initial career with Touche Ross & Co CAs, ptnr Grieveson Grant & Co 1981-86, dir Kleinwort Benson Securities Ltd 1986-94, dep chm Harvill Press Ltd 1994-2002; dir: Euclidian plc 1994-99, Elderstreet Corporate Finance Ltd 1997-99, IDJ Ltd 1999-2004, Govett European Enhanced Investment Trust plc 1999-2004 (chm 2003-04), Kiln plc 2001-06; chm Community Careline Services Ltd 2001-02, non-exec dep chm West 175 Media Gp 2001-06 (dir 2000-06), non-exec dir Hightex Gp plc 2006-; tstee HSBC Common Funds for Growth and Income 1994-2002; dir Ludgate Investments Ltd 2004-; chm: Projects Ctee Nat Art-Collections Fund 1977-86, London Historic House Museums Tst 1992-2009 (tstee 1987-2009); hon treas: Friends of the Nat Libraries 1990-, Friends of the British Library 1990-95, Friends of Lambeth Palace Library 1990-, The London Library 1991-2003, The Walpole Soc 1992-; govr of Patrons of the Nat Gallery of Scotland 1992-2010, treas Roxburghe Club 2002-; tstee: Samuel Courtauld Tst 1992-2007, Nat Art Collections Fund ('Art Fund') 2000-11, Nat Manuscripts Conservation Tst 2000-, Montefiore Endowment 2004-07, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2004-, Strawberry Hill Tst 2004-07; jt sec Soc of Dilettanti 2002-; Liveryman Worshipful Co of Spectacle Makers 1973; FCA 1974, FRSA 1980, FSA 1995

Books and Publications: The British as Art Collectors: From the Tudors to the Present (jtly, 2012), A Dynasty of Dealers: John Smith and Successors 1801-1924 (2012)