David Orr ACR
David Orr ACR is Castle and Collections Manager at Hillsborough Castle for Historic Royal Palaces.
As an accredited conservator he has overseen the collections at the castle for over 8 years with building up experience that ranges from collections management, salvage to supervising on site treatment projects. David graduated from West Dean College, setting up a business in metalwork conservation in Northern Ireland, he gained his experience from restoring, maintaining, and operating steam locomotives from a young age.
David is a keen advocate for conservation, being engaged and challenged on completing projects that will help to protect collections but also highlight conservation as a discipline.
Sarah Graham
Sarah Graham is Head of Conservation at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and an accredited book and paper conservator. She graduated from Lincoln University and was an intern at the National Archives of Ireland and Glasgow University. Sarah went on to be a project conservator at Glasgow before moving to The London Archives to work on their Anglo-Jewish collections. She returned to Ireland in 2018 and was book conservator at Maynooth University before taking up her current role at PRONI.