Martin McIlroy
Martin McIlroy is the Head of the Works of Art and Silver Departments at Bearnes
Hampton & Littlewood.
Martin McIlroy was educated at Exeter School in Devon and took a gap year before
continuing his education at Teacher Training College. He subsequently worked at
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, cataloguing reserve collections
before spending seven years working for a local auction room gaining further experience.
He joined the internationally renowned auction house Philips in 1982, where he catalogued
sales in Exeter, Cornwall and London for sixteen years. He then joined Bearne's in 2000
to catalogue silver and works of art and subsequently became Head of these deparments.
His favourite subject is bronze sculpture, closely followed by clocks and scientific
instruments.