Roy Strong
Sir Roy Colin Strong, 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, and made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016.
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- Born in
- Winchmore Hill
- Educated at
- Queen Mary University of LondonWarburg InstituteEdmonton County School
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Companion of Honour🏆 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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1935
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