Christopher Ridgway has been curator at Castle Howard since 1984. He is Chair of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at Maynooth University. He has lectured and published extensively on Castle Howard’s collections, history and landscapes. His most recent publications, co-edited with Terence Dooley, include Country House Collections, Their Lives and Afterlives (2021) and The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and England (2024).
