biography
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Strong, Sir Roy (Colin)
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Art historian and museum director, born in London, UK. He studied at Queen Mary College, London, and at the Warburg Institute, and became assistant keeper at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1959, and its director in 1967. He was director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (1974–87), has produced numerous books, and wrote and presented the BBC television series Royal Gardens (1992). He was knighted in 1982. |
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