Each Tate gallery needs its own director not just a chief curator plus

It is not generally known that what is now Tate Britain opened in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art and was a department of the National Gallery. Twenty years later the gallery on Millbank was given its own director and board of trustees and three years later a new identity, National Gallery, Millbank. In 1932 the name was changed to the Tate Gallery, in honour of its sugar daddy and already its informal name. It was not until 1955 that it became fully independent of the National Gall