Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam
1745–1816
Collector, connoisseur, and museum founder. Bequeathed to Cambridge University his collection of pictures, engravings, and books, which became the basis of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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