http://www.theartnewspaper.com/pages/itf/in-the-frame.aspx?y=2014&m=11 — theartnewspaper.com

Mary Archer is the new chair of the Science Museum Group, which runs London’s Science Museum. Mary was trained as a scientist, later lecturing in chemistry at Oxford and Cambridge; her term is due to run from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2018. Sajid Javid, the culture secretary, notes her “fine track record of chairing high profile institutions, along with a sense of what the visiting public want and expect from museums today”. Announcements of such government appointments have to include any declared political activity in the past five years, but not that of their spouses. Hence nothing is recorded about her husband, novelist Jeffrey, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party back in the 1980s. But Jeffrey says on his blog regarding the appointment: "I'm a very proud husband."

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