Charles Tracy

Charles William Justin Hanbury-Tracy (born 14 April 1938) is a British scholar and heritage consultant on the history and development of medieval British and European continental church furniture. He publishes under the name of Charles Tracy. Education Tracy attended Sherborne School in Dorset. He went to the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1978 as a mature student and gained a BA (Hons) in the History of European Art in 1981. This was followed by a PhD thesis at the same institution, titled English Gothic Choir-stalls to c. 1400 (1984). Material from his thesis was later published in two volumes (1987 and 1990), titled English gothic choir-stalls. He contributed photographs to the Courtauld's Conway Library archive which are currently (2020) being digitised as part of the Courtauld Connects project. Career Tracy was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 1989. His specialist subject is English church woodwork, especially carved chests, choir-stalls, and misericords. He is recommended on the Victoria and Albert Museum website for further information on a late medieval carved chest from Suffolk.