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Gwenyth Anne Yarker BEM FSA FRHistS is a British curator.[1]
Yarker began her curatorial career following undergraduate study at the Open University and postgraduate research at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[2]
Yarker became honorary curator of Fine Art at the Dorset County Museum in the 1990s. In 2011 she curated a major exhibition of British portraits titled "Georgian Faces: Portrait of a County".[3] She is also a trustee of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, who are closely associated with the museum.[1]
Yarker is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 2005.[5]
In the 2013 New Year Honours list she was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to museums. This was presented to her in May 2013 by Valerie Pitt-Rivers, the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset.[1]