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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 ...
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.
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 may refer to: John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist; John Strachey (civil servant) (1823–1907), British civil servant in India; John Strachey (journalist) (1860–1927), editor of The Spectator; John Strachey (politician) (1901–1963), British Labour politician; John Strachey (priest) (1737–1818 ...
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.
"Boys' Weeklies" is an essay by George Orwell in which he analyses those weekly story-paper publications for boys which were current around 1940. After being published in Horizon in abridged form, it was published alongside two of his other pieces in Inside the Whale and Other Essays from Victor Gollancz Ltd.
Orwell loved the natural world from his childhood, when he rambled in the fields around Henley-on-Thames and on the South Downs at Eastbourne, Sussex.His letters and diaries reveal his careful observation of the nature surrounding him and of field expeditions throughout his life, even when he was in Catalonia or at the sanatorium in Kent in 1938.