Dame Rosalind, Curator Emerita, the Wallace Collection, London, was educated at the University of Leeds (BA English and Fine Art 1972) and at the Study Centre. In 1973 she became a Museum Assistant in the Ceramics Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, moving to the Wallace Collection in 1974. There she worked for thirty-seven years, becoming an Assistant Director in 1979 and Director in 1992, retiring in 2011. She was awarded a DBE for services to the Arts in 2009.