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[[File:Elgin Marbles British Museum.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Elgin Marbles|Parthenon Marbles]] on display in the Duveen Gallery of the [[British Museum]]]]
Duveen quickly became enormously wealthy and made many philanthropic donations. He donated paintings to British galleries and gave considerable sums to repair and expand several galleries and museums. Amongst other things, he built the Duveen Gallery of the [[British Museum]] to house the [[Elgin Marbles]], and funded a major extension of the [[Tate Britain|Tate Gallery]].{{fact|date=December 2021}}
For his philanthropy, he was knighted in 1919, made a '''Baronet''' of Millbank in the City of Westminster in 1927<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33249 |date=18 February 1927 |page=1111 }}</ref> and raised to the peerage as '''Baron Duveen''' of Millbank in the City of Westminster on 3 February 1933.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33909 |date=7 February 1933 |page=825 }}</ref>
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