PETER PALUMBO FORMER CHAIRMAN OF ARTS COUNCIL WITH WIFE AT HOME IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Peter Garth Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (born 20 July 1935) is a property developer, art collector and architecture conniseur. He went to Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford, whence he received an in law. He is the son of Rudolph Palumbo and his wife Elsie. Rudolph, who left school aged 12, himself became a wealthy property developer before World War II. Peter Palumbo married Denia Wigram in 1959 and they had one son and two daughters; after she died in 1986 he married Hayat Morowa (daughter of a Lebanese newspaper publisher) with whom he had another son and two daughters. His son from the first marriage, James "Jamie" Palumbo owns the Ministry of Sound nightclub and record label and is also a property developer. Jamie, who the Sunday Times Rich List 2004 estimates has a net worth of £136m, is a noted backer of the Labour Party (whereas Peter Palumbo is a Conservative Party peer). In 1995 Peter Palumbo was sued by Jamie on the grounds that he had been abusing the family trust fund to pay for artwork purchases. In 1972 he bought the Farnsworth House, designed by Mies van der Rohe, to which Palumbo added the designer's furniture. He also expanded the grounds of the house by purchasing adjacent properties, and commissioned noted sculptors including Anthony Caro and Richard Serra to provide artworks for the grounds. Palumbo sold the property to a group of Mies conservationists in 2003 for a reported $ million. Palumbo also owns Kentuck Knob, a private house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania, and Le Corbusier's Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. Palumbo was a trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1978 until 1985, and chairman of the gallery's foundation between 1986 and 1987. He formerly served as a trustee for the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and is currently a trustee of the Natural History Museum and is the chairman of the Serpentine Gallery's board of trustees. He was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1988 until 199
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