Jonathan Conlin
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Jonathan Conlin

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Jonathan Conlin was born in New York and later moved to Britain, where he studied history at Oxford, the Courtauld Institute of Art and Cambridge University. His most recent book was the biography of the Anglo-Armenian oil baron, art collector and philanthropist Calouste Gulbenkian, known as "Mr Five Per Cent" on account of his personal holding of 5% of Middle East oil production. "Mr Five Per Cent" has been translated into six languages and won the 2020 BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Jonathan is currently writing a history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to be published in 2023 by Columbia University Press. In 2022 he was commissioned by the National Gallery to write their bicentenary history, to be published in 2024. He then hopes to return to biography, with a study of the eighteenth-century trans diplomat, soldier and spy the Chevalier d'Eon. Having first researched the history of the National Gallery as a PhD student at Cambridge, Jonathan remains fascinated by the history of collecting, of museums and the politics of national heritage. In addition to writing critical studies of the BBC2 series "Civilisation" (1969, presented by Kenneth Clark) and "Ways of Seeing" (1972, presented by John Berger) he curated two programmes of events in London and Washington to mark the fortieth anniversaries of both series. He teaches at the University of Southampton, where he is Professor of Modern History, and is co-convenor of The Lausanne Project.
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    • Mr Five Per Cent

    • The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man
    • Written by: Jonathan Conlin
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-11
    • Language: English
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