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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.
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]
Strachey developed the idea for Eminent Victorians in 1912, when he was living on occasional journalism and writing dilettante plays and verse for his Bloomsbury friends. . He went to live in the country at East Ilsley and started work on a book then called Victorian Silhouettes, containing miniature biographies of a dozen notable Victorian personalit
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]
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]
Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, PC (30 October 1858 – 25 July 1936), known as Sir Edward Strachey, Bt, between 1901 and 1911, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith between 1905 and 1915.