Dr Henry C McMurray

 

Dr Henry C McMurray, BA, MSc, Eon, OBE

Campbell was co-opted as a member of the Board of Trustees in 2007 and elected in 2008. Brought up and educated in Argyll and Edinburgh, Campbell originally trained as a marine engineer. After sea service in the mercantile marine he attended the University of Leicester and the London School of Economics. In 1970 Campbell joined the National Maritime Museum as the first Caird Research fellow. In 1983 he became a founding Director of the new Scottish Maritime Museum in Ayrshire. Appointed director of the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth in 1989, he led the museum through the largest capital expansion programme (£5.75 million) in its history. In 2001 he was appointed OBE for services to naval heritage and in the same year he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of letters of the University of Portsmouth for contributions to scholarship in naval and maritime history. He retired from full-time employment in June 2006 and in the same year he was appointed to the Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships and the Department for Culture Media and Sport Executive Agency set up to advise the Secretary for State on ship preservation.

Campbell also sits on the Council of the Society for Nautical Research, on the Board of the Mary Rose Archaeological Services, the Maritime Workshops (a historic craft restoration undertaking) and the Hants and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology.