Roy Strong
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| Born |
Roy Colin Strong 23 August 1935 Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, England |
| Alma mater |
Queen Mary's College, University of London (BA) Warburg Institute (PhD) |
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Spouse(s) |
Julia Trevelyan Oman (Lady Strong; b. 1930 d. 2003) |
Queen Mary's College, University of London (BA)
Sir Roy Colin Strong, CH FRSL (born 23 August 1935) is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Strong was knighted in 1982.
Roy Colin Strong was born the third son of George Edward C. Strong and Mabel A. Strong (née Smart), in Winchmore Hill, then in Middlesex, and attended nearby Edmonton County School in Edmonton, London.
Strong graduated with a first class honours degree in history from Queen Mary College, University of London. He then earned his Ph.D from the Warburg Institute and became a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. His passionate interest in the portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I was sidelined "while he wrote a thesis on Elizabethan Court Pageantry supervised by the Renaissance scholar, Dame Frances Yates who (he says) restructured and re-formed ...[his]... thinking." In 2007 Strong listed his qualifications as DLitt PhD FSA.
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