Peter Burman

Peter Burman (born Peter Ashley Thomas Insull Burman, MBE FSA, Solihull, 15 September 1944 ) is a British architectural historian.

Education He studied History of Art at King's College, Cambridge. In 1980 he participated in the Mural Paintings Conservation Course at ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in Rome. He has a special interest in the use of building limes: he founded the Building Limes Forum for the United Kingdom in 1992, and served as its Convenor from 1992 to 2000. In February 2015 he was elected Vice-Chair of the Built Environment Forum for Scotland. He is a Guardian of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and chair of SPAB Scotland, and a founding trustee of SAVE Britain's Heritage. He is Chairman of the Falkland Stewardship Trust, Chairman of the Falkland Society, and Archivist and Trustee of Hopetoun House.

He is a Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George, and was elected a Director of the Guild in 2018.

He is a member of the Vestry of St James, Goldenacre, and a member of the Provincial Buildings Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

In October 2025 he was appointed Patron of the Medieval Kintyre Project.

In 2026 he was appointed President of the Edinburgh Society of Organists.

Honours In May 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He received an MBE in the New Years Honours for 1990 as General Secretary of the Council for the Care of Churches. In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate of engineering (Dr.-Ing. e.h.) in monument conservation and architectural history (Denkmalpflege und Architekturgeschichte) from the Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus. He is a member of the Art Workers' Guild.

Personal life In June 2019 he married Ross Burgess in a Humanist ceremony in Falkland, Fife, followed a week later by a ceremony at the Unitarian Church in Croydon.