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Thomas Houlton, Social Chair

Hometown: Kingston-Upon-Hull (or just Hull will do), East Yorkshire, England

Favourite Museums: National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, The British Library, Madame Tussauds, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Natural History Museum, Sir John Soane’s House, The Wallace Collection, The Gilbert Collection, British Film Institute (all London), Glasgow Art Gallery, (Glasgow, Scotland), Yorvik Centre (York, UK)), The Robin Hood Experience (Nottingham, UK), Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Transport Museum (Hull, UK), Housesteads Roman Fort and Hadrian’s Wall (Northumbria, UK), The Eden Project (Cornwall, UK), Trinity College Library (Dublin, Ireland), Blasket Isles Museum (Southern Ireland), State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Athenium Art Museum, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland), Skansen Open Air Museum, Vasa Museum (Stockholm), El Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile), Quinta Vergara (Viña del Mar, Chile), Rodin House Museum, Musée d’Orsay, Louvre (Paris, France), Museo Thyssen, El Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain), The
Cloisters, The Met, The Morgan Library, The Hispanic Society, El Museo del Barrio, American Museum of Natural History The Frick Collection (New York), The Getty Museum, La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles), Bryce Canyon Museum (Bryce Canyon).

Favourite Historic Houses/Sites: Langinkoski Fishing Lodge (Finland), Peterhof Palace (St. Petersburg, Russia), Crathes Castle, Iona Abbey, Edinburgh Castle, Blair Castle, Dunnottar Castle, Eilean Donan Castle, Glengorm Castle, Glamis Castle, Kinloch Castle (Scotland), Scarborough Castle, Rievaulx Abbey, Fountains Abbey, Woodend, Sledmere House, Cragside, Trebah Gardens, Lanhydrock, Castle Drogo, Sissinghurst, Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall, Hardwick House, Lindisfarne, Stonehenge, Bamburgh Castle, Salt’s Mill (UK), La Isla Negra, San Sebastian (Two of Pablo Neruda’s Houses, Chile), Alhambra Palace (Granada, Spain), Versailles (Paris), Shönbrunn Palace (Austria), Sanssouci Royal Park (Potsdam, Germany), Drottingholm Palace (Stockholm, Sweden), any number of churches and cathedrals!

Favourite NY eats: The Clinton Street Baking Company, Sea, Think Coffee, Café Mozart, Five Points, Nobu, ‘Wichcraft, Black Hound Bakery, many many more!

Further Favourites: Books, reading, thinking, writing, music, playing the piano, singing, walking, wide open landscapes, good cakes, the drinking of tea, films, watching sports rather than playing them, conversation, Scotland and the North of England in general, antiquity, ruins, paganism, art, South America, architecture, good food and wine, the coast, comedy, travel.