Philip Cunliffe-Owen

Sir Francis Philip Cunliffe-Owen KCB KCMG CIE FRSA (8 June 1828 – 23 March 1894) was an exhibition organizer and the Director of the South Kensington Museum in London.

At the age of 12, he joined the Royal Navy, served in the Mediterranean and West Indies, but left after five years due to poor health.

In 1854, his elder brother, Henry Charles Cunliffe-Owen, helped him to obtain a position in the newly formed Department of Science and Art.

Cole appointed Cunliffe-Owen as one of the superintendents of the British section in the 1855 Exposition Universelle, held at Paris.

He was appointed secretary of the Royal Commission and to represent Britain at the 1873 Weltausstellung in Vienna, Austria, reporting to the Edward, Prince of Wales.

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen
The Paris Exposition Universelle (1855) , which Philip Cunliffe-Owen helped to organize.