John Strachey (1737–1818) was

Archdeacon of Suffolk The Archdeacon of Suffolk is a senior cleric in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The archdeacon is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy in the territory of the archdeaconry. History Originally in the Dioceses of No ...

from 5 March 1781 until his death on 17 December 1818.

Life

Strachey was born in

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on 30 July 1737, the second son of Henry Strachey of Sutton Court, and younger brother of

Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet 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. Life Strachey was the eldest son of Henry Strachey, of Sutton Court, S ...

. He was educated at

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. He was

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in 1760 and became Chaplain to Philip Yonge, Bishop of Norwich of

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from 1801 to 1835. He held livings at

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and Thwaite. Strachey was an

Honorary Chaplain to the King An Honorary Chaplain to the King (KHC) is a member of the clergy within the United Kingdom who, through long and distinguished service, is appointed to minister to the monarch of the United Kingdom. When the reigning monarch is female, Honorary C ...

from 1774 until his death at Ramsgate. He was the preacher of the

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, from 1783 to 1817.

Antiquarian

Strachey was a

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. He saw through the press the 1777 edition of the Rolls of Parliament (Edward I to Henry VII, partial). He also began an index and glossary to the Rolls. It was continued by

John Pridden John Pridden (3 January 1758–5 April 1825) was an English cleric and antiquary. Life The eldest son of John Pridden, a bookseller of Ludgate Hill and friend of Joseph Brasbridge, by his wife Anne, daughter of Humphrey Gregory of Whitchurch, Shr ...

, with John Calder; and completed by

Edward Upham Edward Upham (1776–1834) was an English bookseller, antiquarian and orientalist. Life The third son of Charles Upham (1739–1807), mayor of Exeter in 1796, he was born at Exeter. He began life as a bookseller there; his brother John carried ...

, with publication in 1832.

Family

Strachey married Anne Wombwell (died 1836), daughter of George Wombwell. They had five sons, two of whom died young, and five daughters. The sons included John Strachey (1773–1808) and George Strachey (1776–1849), both judges in India. The third son to reach adulthood, Christopher Strachey (1778–1855), was a naval captain. Of the daughters, Eliza married in 1814 Barlow Trecothick, of Addington Place. He was the son of James Ivers Trecothick and his wife Susanna Edmondstone, and great-nephew of

Barlow Trecothick Barlow Trecothick ( – 28 May 1775) was a City of London merchant brought up in the colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay who became one of the Members of Parliament for the City of London and was Lord Mayor of London in 1770. Early life Trec ...

the

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. Elizabeth (died 1875), a diarist, married Thomas Henry Ernst of Westcombe; Ernst (1774–1855) was in the East India Company service from 1792 to 1811, and bought the Westcombe estate at the end of the 1810s.

References

1737 births 1818 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Suffolk Honorary Chaplains to the King Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London {{Christianity-bio-stub