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Evelyn John St Loe Strachey (21 October 1901 – 15 July 1963) was a British Labour politician and writer. A journalist by profession, Strachey was elected to Parliament in 1929 . He was initially a disciple of Oswald Mosley , and, feeling that the Second Labour Government was not doing enough to combat unemployment, joined Mosley in founding ...
Sir John Strachey GCSI CIE (5 June 1823 – 19 December 1907) was a British civil servant and writer in India who served as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1874 to 1876. He was briefly acting Governor-General in February 1872 (following Lord Mayo's assassination ), before being replaced by the more appropriate Lord ...
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 ]
John Strachey (politician) (1901–1963), British Labour politician John Strachey (priest) (1737–1818), Archdeacon of Suffolk Jack Strachey (1894–1972), English composer and songwriter
Strachey married Anne Wombwell (died 1836), daughter of George Wombwell. [5] [9] They had five sons, two of whom died young, and five daughters. [10] The sons included John Strachey (1773–1808) and George Strachey (1776–1849), both judges in India. [11] [12] The third son to reach adulthood, Christopher Strachey (1778–1855), was a naval ...
The New Party's sharp turn to fascism led previous supporters such as John Strachey and Harold Nicolson to leave it. In 1932, Mosley united most of the various British fascist organisations to form the British Union of Fascists into which the New Party subsumed itself.
Charles Strachey, presumed 6th Baronet (1934–2014), did not use the title. [8] The late Baron was succeeded in the baronetcy by his first cousin once removed, the sixth Baronet. He was the son of John Strachey, son and namesake of John Strachey, second son of the third Baronet. Strachey died January 2014, without using his title.
It was triggered by the death of the town's Labour MP, Albert Bellamy, and resulted in a victory for the Conservative candidate, Col John Broadbent. This was the first election contested by Oswald Mosley's New Party, which had only been formed on 1 March that year after Mosley had resigned from the Labour Party. The furious crowd on the market ...