Maxwell Craven Author

Maxwell Craven is a graduate of Nottingham University, his dissertation being on the decline of the Roman Patriciate. He is an historian, conservationist and author who for 25 years was Keeper of Antiquities at Derby Museum. He has written extensively, mainly on local topics, biography and architectural history; his monograph of the Enlightenment figure John Whitehurst FRS was published by Fonthill in 2015. He currently writes heritage assessments for historic buildings and acts as numismatic consultant for Bamfords Auctioneers. He was elected FSA and made MBE in 1999 and awarded an honorary DLitt by Derby University in 2013.