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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.
Richard Strachey (1817–1908) was the husband of the suffragette Jane Maria Strachey (1840–1928) and father of 10 surviving children, including: Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) was a writer and thinker and among his prominent works are Eminent Victorians and a celebrated biography of Queen Victoria.
The Strachey family, originally from Sutton Court, Somerset, England, a number of whom were associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Pages in category "Strachey family" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
Jane Maria Strachey, Lady Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English suffragist and writer. [1] [2] Her father was a British colonial administrator; Jane married her father's secretary, Sir Richard Strachey, and ten of their children survived into adulthood. She was an outspoken advocate for the right of women to vote, and ...
In 1810, Strachey's father Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet, died, and Henry Strachey succeeded his father to the baronetcy and inherited Sutton Court, the family home. The 2nd Baronet became High Sheriff of Somerset in 1832. Like other members of the Strachey family, he befriended literary friends, including Walter Savage Landor. [2]
After retirement in 1941, Strachey hoped to find time for research in her field of Anglo-Norman literature, but increasing ill health, and the pressure of wartime, did not allow this. [1] Strachey died at the family's Bloomsbury home (since 1919), no. 51 Gordon Square in London, on 19 December 1951, aged 75. [1]
In 1858 Strachey succeeded to the title and Somerset estates of his uncle, Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet, who had died unmarried. He was a concerned landlord, an active magistrate and a deputy-lieutenant, and in 1864 was High Sheriff of Somerset ; he was also a poor-law guardian and a member of the first Somerset County Council .
Strachey was about 37 years old when he married Caroline Bowles, who died in 1855, within a year of their wedding. Nearly four years were to pass before he married again. On 4 January 1859, the 42-year-old Richard married 18-year-old Jane Maria Grant , to be known henceforth as Jane, Lady Strachey (1840–1928).