Julia Trevelyan Oman

Julia Trevelyan Oman, Lady Strong CBE (11 July 1930 – 10 October 2003) was an English television, theatre, ballet and opera set designer.

Biography Julia Trevelyan Oman was born on 11 July 1930 in Kensington, London. Her father was Charles Chichele Oman, Keeper of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum, son of Sir Charles Oman; her mother the historian Joan Trevelyan, daughter of Calcutta High Court judge Sir Ernest John Trevelyan. She was educated at Wimbledon College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, where she won a silver medal in 1955.

Among the BBC television programmes Oman 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. which still uses her original set and costumes from 1984.

Oman married the art historian Roy Strong on 10 September 1971, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1986 New Year Honours.