Julia Trevelyan Oman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Julia Trevelyan Oman CBE, (1930–2003; formally Lady Strong) was an English television, theatre, ballet and opera set designer.Trevelyan Oman was born on 11 July 1930 in Kensington, London, England. Her father was Charles Chichele Oman, Keeper of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum (his father was the military historian and MP Sir Charles Oman), her mother the historian Joan Trevelyan. She was educated at Wimbledon College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art.Among the BBC television programmes she worked on were Dixon of Dock Green and the Billy Cotton Band Show. She later designed sets for the Chichester Festival, Hamburg State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.She married the art historian Roy Strong on 10 September 1971, at Wilmcote church, near Stratford-upon-Avon, with a special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury. She was 41 and her husband 35. They lived at Much Birch, Herefordshire, where they made one of Britain's largest post-war formal gardens, The Laskett. In 1995 they commissioned the artist Jonathan Myles-Lea to paint a 'portrait' of the house and gardens and the painting The Laskett was completed the same year. She and Strong also wrote books together.She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 18 December 1971, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1986.She died at Much Birch, on 10 October 2003, of pancreatic cancer.A number of her paintings, including a self-portrait, are in the University of Bristol's Theatre Collection.
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