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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).
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.
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] He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, and served as a Page to Queen Elizabeth II between 1959 and 1961. [2]
Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (23 May 1736 – 3 January 1810) was a British civil servant and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1768 to 1807. Sutton Court, Somerset Life
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...