Randolph Vigne Author

Tessa Murdoch, FSA, is an independent scholar and a director of the French Hospital. Her work on Huguenot refugee art and culture, Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, was published in 2021. Family silver by her ancestor the London-based Huguenot goldsmith Edward Feline inspired her doctoral research on Huguenot artists and craftsmen in Great Britain and Ireland. At the Museum of London she worked on the exhibition The Quiet Conquest: The Huguenots 1685-1985 marking the tercentenary of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Formerly lead curator for the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries, which opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2009 and features some spectacular Huguenot craftsmanship, she is a member of the Livery of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. Randolph Vigne, FSA (1928-2016), devoted many years to researching the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Huguenot diaspora and writing and lecturing extensively about it. For eighteen years he edited the publications of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and for six was its president. A contributor to many collections of essays on Huguenot history, he was co-editor in 2001 of the book From Strangers to Citizens, the published papers from the conference marking the 350th anniversary of Edward VI's Royal Charter which granted the right of the Huguenots and Dutch and Walloon Protestants in England to worship according to their own liturgy. He was a director of the French Hospital for thirty years and was its treasurer for ten.