death_place death_date home_town nationality known_for article_title education name occupation death_cause
ealing 29 july 2011 kent english paedophilia roger took
 sandhurst , the courtauld institute roger f. took art historian , curator , writer suicide
roger took

roger f. took was an art historian , museum curator , author and convicted child sex offender who lived in london , ireland , and russia .
in the course of his career , he ran several museums in england , was a fellow of the royal geographical society , and a former director of the barbican art gallery .
he attended sandhurst and the courtauld institute .
he married in 1983 , and in 1985 founded artangel , an institution within the field of contemporary art .
in december 2003 , `` running with reindeer : encounters in russian lapland '' , roger took 's detailed description of life on russia 's lapland and kola peninsula , was published in hardback .
this book was shortlisted for the thomas cook travel book award .
took was most recently acclaimed as an expert on the mediaeval russian fur trade .
in april 2007 , took was arrested for paedophilia-related crimes , and in february 2008 was jailed for a minimum of four and a half years as part of an indeterminate sentence for 17 crimes relating to child abuse .
