The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charity for the "protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland."[1] The trust was founded in 1997 by the architectural historian Jill Allibone (1932–1998).[2]Tim Knox, then the director of the Soane Museum and the trust's first chairman, described it as “the dottiest conservation cause in the land”.[3]