Sir Angus Duncan Æneas Stirling (10 December 1933 – 1 June 2026) was a British arts administrator and conservationist who was director general of the National Trust and served on many other charitable bodies in the United Kingdom.
Stirling was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before taking a Diploma in the History of Art at London University as an extramural student. He was Honorary Fellow of The Courtauld Institute of Art, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He trained as an artist at the Lydgate Art Research Centre in Britain and had exhibitions in London and in Somerset.
Sir Angus Stirling died on 1 June 2026, aged 92.
Appointments
Director general of the National Trust 1983–1995
Chairman of the Greenwich Foundation for the Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1997–2004
Trustee of the Samuel Courtauld Trust 1990–2012
Member of governing board, the Courtauld Institute of Art 1981–1983 and 2002–2014
Trustee, World Monuments Fund in Britain, 1996–2007
Governor of Gresham's School
Chairman of the Royal Opera House, 1991–1996
Trustee of the City and Guilds of London Art School
Chairman of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee 1997–2002
Member of the Stowe House Preservation Trust 1998–2012
President of the Friends of Holland Park