Ian Eaves

Ian Donald Dietrich Eaves, , is a British researcher and consultant on arms and armour. He served as the Keeper of Armour at the Royal Armouries for eighteen years, from 1978 to 1996. Also starting in 1978, and continuing until 1983, he served as the editor of the ''Journal of the Arms & Armour Society''; he was appointed the society's president in 1995, and currently serves as a vice-president emeritus. He has written and translated several articles for journals, including the society's.

As of 2019, Eaves works as a consultant on arms and armour, and has been commissioned to create several catalogues of large collections. In 2002 he published ''Catalogue of European Armour at the Fitzwilliam Museum'', and in 2016 he coauthored the long-awaited ''Arms & Armour in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen'', a 528-page work which Eaves had been working on for more than a decade. He has also coauthored a volume of an illustrated miniature series, ''The Art of the Gun: European Firearms Masterpieces from the 17th to the 19th Centuries''. Eaves's work as a consultant has also included duties for auction houses, including Sotheby's and Thomas Del Mar Limited.

Eaves has also collected armour himself; one of his former pieces is now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Provided by Wikipedia