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Born and brought up in North Devon, Tim attended
auctions from a very tender age, watching his father conduct sales for the
family firm during the school holidays. His first experience of
auctioneering (selling the contents of a kitchen at the end of a farm
sale) when aged around 16 or so, led him to pursue a career as a
professional in the auction and property business. Qualifying as a
Chartered Auctioneer and Chartered Surveyor enabled him to gather
considerable experience in the provinces, but in order to further his
interest in the field of Fine Art auctioneering; he was inevitably drawn
to London. Following a post-graduate course at the V & A’s study centre
for the Fine and Decorative Arts, he joined Sotheby’s in London in 1978,
becoming a junior Director in 1983 and full Director in 1985.
Tim is married with three
children and lived for 15 years in Cheshire, running Sotheby’s operations
in the North West. In September 1998, he was appointed Chairman of
Sotheby’s South saleroom in Sussex and in 2001, became Chairman of
Sotheby’s new saleroom at Olympia in London, dual roles which he held
until January 2003.
Tim started his career at Sotheby’s nearly 25 years
ago in London, working principally in the Furniture Department. His main
area of expertise lies in this field, but over the last twenty years with
Sotheby’s, he developed a considerable breadth of experience throughout
the decorative arts, including clocks, barometers, 19th century sculpture
and works of art, ceramics and silver. He has conducted auction sales
throughout the United Kingdom, North America and such far flung places as
India!
Once described by the Daily Telegraph Arts
Correspondent as ‘Sotheby’s Finest Auctioneer’ and apart from conducting
sales at Sotheby’s, Tim has helped many Charities over the years to raise
money at auction, the most successful of which was the London ‘Cow Parade’
auction held in autumn 2002, which raised over £400,000 for Childline! Tim
recently conducted another auction for Cow Parade in the Isle of Man in
the presence of Prince Andrew which made over £110,000. |