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David Myerscough-Jones FCSD influential TV, Film and Theatre set designer. Born 15 September 1934 in Southport, England, died 21 April 2010 in Saint Omer. Only child of Frederic Cecil Sydney Jones and Dorothy Lilian Myerscough. He attended Southport School of Art and gained a Theatre Design Scholarship to the Central School of Art, London where he graduated with a distinction in Stage Design.

From here he was appointed Designer for Leatherhead Repertory Theatre and then spent several years at the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre. From which he left to join the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and subsequently The Mermaid Theatre London under the Direction of Bernard Miles CBE. Whilst at Hornchurch he met Ursula Theodora Joy Cumpston (Pelo) whom he married in February 1963.

He left The Mermaid in 1966 to join thye BBC Design Department, White City, London which was then expanding with BBC Two.

His most notable designs were for the productions Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, John Culshaw, Brian Large), Owen Wingate (Britten Pears)- World Premier, Die Wintereisse (Britten Pears). Flying Dutchman (1976 Norman Bailey), Therese Raquin (BAFTA Best Design), The Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex and Antigone, Director Don Taylor), The Begger's Opera (Jonathan Miller), Cosi Fan Tutti (Jonathan Miller), Dr Who (The Web of Fear, Day of the Darleks), Orde Wingate, The Master Builder, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Yellow Wallpaper, Young Yung, and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

He left the BBC in 1991 to go freelance. During this period he returned to the Theatre and joined as designer for Bath City Opera and later Bath and Wessex Opera patroness Rose Bugden, Director John Pascoe for La Boheme (Renée Fleming), Don Giovanni, Britten's Turn of the Screw and La Traviata. He designed the set for Stagelands for Michael Friend Productions which toured the United Kingdom. He also designed The Barber of Seville for Walnut Creek Opera Festival.

He retired to France with Pelo in 1998.