Humphry Wakefield

Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet FRGS, (born 11 July 1936) is an English baronet and expert on antiques and architecture.

Wakefield has made his career a study of antique furniture and historic restoration. He worked for Christie's of London, and subsequently became director and chairman of antique-dealing firms. In 1982 he bought Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, from the Grey family, of Northumberland, the family of his third wife Catherine, daughter of Lady Mary Grey. He has since restored the ruined castle to a habitable state to house his wide collection of antiquities, from his own collection and those of his relations.

Wakefield is the elder son of the politician Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, later created a baronet, by his wife (Constance) Lalage Thompson, the second child of Sir John Perronet Thompson, a nephew of the first Baron Wakefield of Kendal.

He was educated at Gordonstoun School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

After leaving Cambridge, Wakefield was commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars and retired from the army with the rank of Captain. He was a Director of Mallett & Son (Antiques) Ltd, from 1971 to 1978 and Executive Vice-President of Mallett America Ltd from 1970 to 1975. He was then Chairman of Tyrrell & Moore Ltd from 1978 to 1992. He joined the New Zealand Everest Team in 1990 and was a member of Norman D. Vaughan's Antarctic Expedition of 1993.

He has been a Director of the Tree of Life Foundation since 1976 and Chairman of the Wilderness Trust since 1999. He is also President of the Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team, the Avison Trust, and the Tibetan Spaniel Association. He was a Director of the Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds (United States and Italy) from 1973 to 1980 and is a Fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Royal Geographical Society. He is a Life Member of the Scott-Polar Institute and the Harlequins Rugby Football Club.

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