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Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; [1] 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
James Beaumont Strachey (/ ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; 26 September 1887, London – 25 April 1967, High Wycombe) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English.
Pernel Strachey (1876–1951), scholar and educationist and the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. James Strachey (1887–1967), a psychoanalyst and biographer of Sigmund Freud, married psychoanalyst Alix Strachey (1892–1973). Oliver Strachey (1874–1960) was a writer and cryptoanalyst and worked at Bletchley Park during WWII.
O'Hagan was born a godson of Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II.The grandson of Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan, he inherited the family title at the age of 16 on his grandfather's death in 1961, his father, the Hon. Major Thomas Strachey, having committed suicide in 1955. [1]
William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture , which ...
Christopher S. Strachey (/ ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; 16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist. [1] [2] [3] He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design and computer time-sharing. [4]
Strachey was the second son of Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Mary Isabella (née Symonds), [1] and the brother of Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, and Henry Strachey. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford , [ 1 ] and later called to the Bar , but chose to take up journalism as his profession. [ 1 ]
Oliver Strachey CBE (3 November 1874 – 14 May 1960), a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Life and work