Sir Roy Colin Strong, (born 23 August 1935) is an English

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, museum

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, writer, broadcaster and

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er. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in London. Strong was

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in 1982.

Early years

Roy Colin Strong was born at

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(then in

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), the third son of hat manufacturer's commercial traveller George Edward Clement Strong, and Mabel Ada Strong (''née'' Smart). He was raised in "an Enfield terrace sans books, with linoleum 'in shades of unutterable green'", and attended nearby

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, a grammar school in

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. Strong graduated with a first class honours degree in history from

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. He then earned his PhD from the

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and became a

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at the

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. His passionate interest in the portraiture of

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was sidelined "while he wrote a thesis on ''Elizabethan Court Pageantry'' supervised by the

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scholar,

Dame Frances Yates Dame Frances Amelia Yates (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English historian of the Renaissance, who wrote books on esoteric history. After attaining an MA in French at University College London, she began to publish her resear ...

who (he says) restructured and re-formed ... is.. thinking." In 2007 Strong listed his qualifications as DLitt PhD FSA.

Career

National Portrait Gallery

He became assistant keeper of the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1959. In 1967, aged 32, he was appointed its director, a post he held until 1973. He set about transforming its conservative image with a series of extrovert shows, including "600

Cecil Beaton Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the theat ...

portraits 1928–1968." Dedicated to the culture of the 1960s and 1970s, Sir Roy went on to amuse audiences at the V&A in 1974 with his collection of

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hats, kipper ties and maxi coats. By regularly introducing new exhibitions he doubled attendance. Reflecting on his time as director of the National Portrait Gallery, Strong pinpointed the Beaton exhibition as a turning point in the gallery's history. "The public flocked to the exhibition and its run was extended twice. The queues to get in made national news. The Gallery had arrived", Strong wrote in the catalogue to Beaton Portraits, the more recent exhibition of Beaton that ran at the gallery until 31 May 2004.

Victoria and Albert Museum

In 1973, aged 38, he became the youngest director of the

(V&A), London. In his tenure, until 1987, he presided over its '' The Destruction of the Country House'' (1974, with

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and John Harris), ''Change and Decay: the future of our churches'' (1977), and ''The Garden: a Celebration of a Thousand Years of British Gardening'' (1979), all of which have been credited with boosting their conservationist agendas. In 1977, following government cuts, he oversaw the closure of the much-lamented Circulation Department of the V&A, which organised tours of the collection around Britain. In 1980, "he was awarded the prestigious

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by the FVS Foundation of

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in recognition of his contribution to the arts in the UK." He was awarded The

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's President's Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2003.

Television

Among other work for television, in 2008 Strong hosted a six-part TV reality series called '' The Diets That Time Forgot''. He acted as the Director of the fictitious Institute of Physical Culture, where nine volunteers spent 24 days testing three weight loss diets and fitness regimes that were popular in the late

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ...

( William Banting and his no-sugar diet), the

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(

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and his chewing diet), and the 'roaring' Twenties (Dr

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and her calorie-counting diet). The weekly series was first aired on 18 March on

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Writing

Strong is a notable scholar of Renaissance art, especially English Elizabethan portraiture, on which he has written many books and articles (see bibliography section). His diaries from 1967 to 1987 were published in 1999, as was ''The Spirit of Britain: A Narrative History of the Arts'', a widely acclaimed 700-page popular history of the arts in Britain through two millennia. In 2005, he published ''Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy''. He had a monthly column in the ''

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'' for much of the 1970s and 1980s, and has written articles for many other magazines and newspapers. In 2000 he wrote ''Gardens Through the Ages'' and is a patron of the Plantation Garden, Norwich.

Personal life

Marriage

On 10 September 1971, Strong married 41-year-old theatrical designer Julia Trevelyan Oman, at

Wilmcote Wilmcote is a village, and since 2004 a separate civil parish, in the English county of Warwickshire, about north of Stratford-upon-Avon. Prior to 2004, it was part of the same parish as Aston Cantlow, and the 2001 population for the whole are ...

church, near

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, with a special licence from the

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. They enjoyed a belated honeymoon in

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. She died in 2003 of

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Herefordshire

Strong resides in the village of

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. Here, with his wife, he designed one of Britain's largest post-war formal gardens, the Laskett Gardens. In 1995 he and his wife commissioned the artist Jonathan Myles-Lea to paint a portrait of the house and gardens, which was completed the same year. Since 2010 the gardens have been open to the public by appointment, for groups of more than twenty. An offer by Strong to bequeath Laskett Gardens to the

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was rejected in 2014 after it was deemed that they fail to "reach the high rung of national and historic importance". Strong later announced plans to have the gardens "destroyed" after his death. He subsequently relented and in 2015 agreed to bequeath the gardens to the horticultural charity "Perennial" ( Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society). After leaving the V&A, Strong published a set of diaries that became notorious for its critical assessments of figures in the art and political worlds. It has been rumoured that he has retained a set for posthumous publication.

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commented in 2002: "His bitchy, hilarious diaries caused a storm when they were published in 1997 and although he has no plans at present to publish another set, he is keeping a private diary again."

Gardening

Strong subsequently designed gardens for

Gianni Versace Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (; 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-u ...

at Versace's Lake Como villa, Villa Fontanelle, and Versace's Miami house,

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. At Versace's behest, Strong designed an Italian garden at

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's residence, Woodside, in Old Windsor, Berkshire.

Anglicanism

A practising

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, Strong is an altar server at

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, as well as High Bailiff and Searcher of the Sanctuary of

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. In this capacity he attended the funeral service of the Queen Mother in 2002. On 30 May 2007, in the crypt of

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, he delivered the annual

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Special Lecture, entitled "The Beauty of Holiness and its Perils (or what is to happen to 10,000 parish churches?)," which was deeply critical of the status quo. He said: "little case can be made in the twenty-first century for an expensive building to exist for a service once a week or month lasting an hour," and he wanted to "take an axe and hatchet the utterly awful kipper coloured choir stalls and pews, drag them out of the church and burn them," and "letting in the local community" in order to preserve many rural churches in Britain.

Portraits of Roy Strong

The National Portrait Gallery Collection has seventeen portraits of Strong including a photo and a sketch by Cecil Beaton and an oil painting by

Bryan Organ Bryan Organ (born 31 August 1935 in Leicester) is a British artist considered one of the leading and most innovative English portrait painters of the 20th century. His paintings have included portraits of prominent public figures and of members ...

. An early bronze bust by

Angela Conner Angela Conner FRSS (born 1935) is an English sculptor who works in London. Conner has exhibited internationally and has large scale sculptures in public and private collections around the world. Biography In her early life as a sculptor, Conner ...

is on view at

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, Derbyshire. In 2005, Strong sat for

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for a work in terracotta which was exhibited at

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in 2013 as part of the ''Sculpture Series Heads – Contributors to British Sculpture''.

Honours

Strong was

in the 1982 New Year Honours and was appointed

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(CH) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to culture.

Honorary positions

* Chairman of the Art Department, Arts Council. * Deputy Chairman,

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. * High Bailiff and Searcher of the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey, from 2000. * President, the

Garden History Society The Garden History Society was an organisation in the United Kingdom established to study the history of gardening and to protect historic gardens. In 2015 it became The Gardens Trust, having merged with the Association of Gardens Trusts. It was f ...

, 2000–06. * President, the Friends of

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, from 2008. * Vice-President Plant Heritage Patron Broadway Arts Festival 2015

Bibliography

* ''Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I'' (

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, London, 1963) * ''

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's Triumph'' (Leiden:

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, and Oxford:

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, 1965), with J. A. van Dorsten. * ''The English Icon'' (

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, London, 1969) * ''Tudor & Jacobean Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery'' (

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, London, 1969) * ''Nicholas Hilliard'' (

Michael Joseph Ltd Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.V&A Publishing, London, 1983) * ''Creating Small Gardens'' ( Conran Octopus, London, 1986) * '' Henry Prince of Wales & England's Lost Renaissance'' (

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, London, 1986) * ''Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I'' (Thames & Hudson, London, 1987) * ''A Small Garden Designer's Handbook'' (Conran Octopus, London, 1987) * ''Lost Treasures of Britain: Five Centuries of Creation and Destruction'' (

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, London, 1990) * ''The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy: Pageantry, Painting, Iconography, Vol. 1'' (

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, 1990) * ''A Country Life: At Home in the English Countryside'' (illustrated by Julia Trevelyan Oman) ( St Martin's Press, 1994) * ''William Larkin: Icons of Splendour'' (

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, 1995) * '' Country Life, 1897–1997: The English Arcadia'' (1996) * ''The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy: Pageantry, Painting, Iconography, Vol. 2: Elizabethan'' (The Boydell Press, 1996) * ''The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–1987'' (

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, 1997) * ''The Tudor and Stuart Monarchy: Pageantry, Painting, Iconography, Vol. 3: Jacobean and Caroline'' (The Boydell Press, 1997) * ''The Story of Britain: A People's History'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998) * ''The Spirit of Britain: A Narrative History of the Arts'' (

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, 1999) * ''The Artist & the Garden'' (

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(

), 2000) * ''Gardens Through the Ages'' (Conran Octopus, 2000) * ''Feast: A History of Grand Eating'' (Jonathan Cape, 2002) * ''The Laskett: The Story of a Garden'' ( Transworld, 2004) * ''Beaton Portraits'' (with Terence Pepper and Peter Conrad) (Yale University Press, 2004) * ''Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy'' (

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, 2005) * ''Passions Past and Present'' (

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, 2005) * ''A Little History of the English Country Church'' (

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, 2007) * ''Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed'' (

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, 2014) * ''The Roy Strong Diaries 1987–2003'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017)

Journal articles

References

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Roy Strong, ''After She'd Gone,'' The Guardian, 21 October 2006

Alan Strachan, ''Julia Trevelyan Oman, Leading designer for theatre, ballet and opera'' (obituary), The Independent, 13 October 2003
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