[2] He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries,[3] a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum[4] and a member of Historic England's Expert Advisory Group.
[5] Salmon was born in Ipswich and educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys, Downing College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
[7] In 2006, Salmon was the invited Plenary Speaker in Savannah, Georgia, at the annual meeting of the Society.
The Rickman Society, a graduate architectural history discussion group named after Thomas Rickman, author of An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of English Architecture (1817) and designer of the 'Wedding Cake' New Court and the Bridge of Sighs at St John's College, Cambridge, meets in Salmon's rooms at St John's.
He is married to art historian Catharine MacLeod, Curator of Seventeenth-Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and has two children.