Strachey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Strachey family of Sutton Court, Somerset

*John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of

John Locke John Locke (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism ...

John Strachey (geologist) John Strachey FRS (10 May 1671 – 11 June 1743) was a British geologist and topographer. He was born in Chew Magna, England. He inherited estates including Sutton Court from his father at three years of age. He matriculated at Trinity Col ...

(1671–1743), British geologist ***Henry Strachey of Sutton Court, Somerset **** Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (1737–1810), British politician and civil servant; son of Henry Strachey and grandson of the geologist John Strachey. He had at least two sons: *****Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (1772–1858), eldest son of the 1st baronet *****Edward Strachey (1774–1832), second son of the 1st baronet; he was in the service of the East India Company. He had at least five sons, including: ******

Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet (1812–1901) was an English man of letters. Life Born at Sutton Court, Chew Magna, Somerset, on 12 August 1812, he was eldest of the six sons of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) of the Bengal service of the East Ind ...

(1812–1901), eldest son of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) and nephew of the second baronet. He had three sons: ******* Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie (1858–1936), Liberal politician; eldest son of the third baronet ********Edward Strachey, 2nd Baron Strachie (1882–1973), son of the 1st Baron Strachie ********Frances Constance Maddalena (d.1931), daughter of the 1st Baron Strachie. She was the first wife of

Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan Maurice Herbert Towneley Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan (20 February 1882 – 18 December 1961), was a British Liberal and later Conservative politician. O'Hagan was the second son of Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, the Liberal Lord Chanc ...

(1882–1961), British Liberal politician, they had at least one son: *********Major Thomas Anthony Edward Towneley Strachey (died 1955), son of the 3rd Baron O'Hagan by his first wife Frances née Strachey, who changed his surname by deed poll to Strachey in September 1938, by which name his progeny are known. **********

Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan Charles Towneley Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan (born 6 September 1945), is a British Conservative party politician. Early years and background O'Hagan was born a godson of Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. The grandson of Maurice ...

(born 1945), British Conservative politician; son of Major Thomas Strachey *******

John St. Loe Strachey John St Loe Strachey (9 February 1860 – 26 August 1927), was a British journalist and newspaper proprietor. Life Strachey was the second son of Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Mary Isabella (née Symonds), and the brother of Ed ...

(1860–1927), journalist and newspaper proprietor; second son of the third baronet. He had three sons, including: ******** John Strachey (politician) (1901–1963), British politician; third and youngest son of

*********Charles Strachey, presumed 6th Baronet (1934–2014) *******

Henry Strachey (artist) Henry Strachey (1863–1940) was an English painter, art critic and writer. Known as ''Harry'', he was the son of Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and a cousin of Lytton Strachey. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and exhibit ...

(1863–1940), painter, art critic and writer; third son of the third baronet ****** Henry Strachey (explorer) (1816–1912), second son of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) and younger brother of the 3rd baronet; he served in India as an officer in the

Bengal Army The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire. The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Govern ...

and was responsible for surveying large portions of western Tibet. He had issue an only daughter *******Julia Charlotte Chance, daughter of Henry Strachey (explorer). In 1884, she married barrister William Chance (later 2nd Baronet Chance), of the wealthy family which owned the glassmaking company Chance Brothers. The couple's residence,

Orchards, Surrey Orchards is an Arts and Crafts style house in Bramley in Surrey, England. It is on Bramley's boundary with Busbridge and south-east of Godalming town centre. Described by English Heritage as the first major work of architect Edwin Lutyens, ...

, was designed for them by

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memori ...

. ****** Richard Strachey (1817–1908), third son of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) and younger brother of the 3rd baronet; husband of the suffragette

Jane Maria Strachey Jane Maria Strachey, Lady Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English suffragist and writer. Her father was a British colonial administrator and she later married her father's secretary, Sir Richard Strachey, and ten of their ch ...

(1840–1928) and father of 10 surviving children, including: ******* Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), son of Richard; writer and thinker; among his prominent works are '' Eminent Victorians'' and a celebrated biography of Queen Victoria ******* Pernel Strachey (1876–1951), daughter of Richard; scholar and educationist; principal of Newnham College, Cambridge *******

James Strachey James Beaumont Strachey (; 26 September 1887, London25 April 1967, High Wycombe) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English. He is perhaps best known as the general editor of ''The Standard ...

(1887–1967), son of Richard; psychoanalyst and biographer of Sigmund Freud; husband of psychoanalyst Alix Strachey (1892–1973) ******* Oliver Strachey (1874–1960), son of Richard; writer and cryptoanalyst; worked at Bletchley Park during WWII. His wives were Ruby Mayer and the feminist Ray Costelloe Strachey (1887–1940). He had three children: ******** Julia Strachey (1901–1979), writer; daughter of Oliver and his first wife Ruby Mayer ******** Barbara Strachey (1912–1999), writer; daughter of Oliver and his second wife Ray ********

Christopher Strachey Christopher S. Strachey (; 16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design and computer time-sharing.F. J. Corbató, et al., ...

(1916–1975), computer scientist; son of Oliver and his second wife Ray ******* Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (1865–1960), daughter of Richard, wife of French painter Simon Bussy; she wrote one novel, '' Olivia'', about a lesbian relationship *******

Pippa Strachey Philippa Strachey, CBE (19 April 1872 – 23 August 1968) was a British suffragist. She organised major suffrage demonstrations and went on to lead the Fawcett Society. Life Pippa was born in Knightsbridge as the fifth child of the large St ...

(1872–1968), daughter of Richard, suffragist and feminist ******

John Strachey (civil servant) 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 Strac ...

(1823–1907), fifth son of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) and younger brother of the 3rd baronet; served as an administrator in India. He married Katherine, daughter of

Joseph Batten Joseph Hallet Batten FRS (25 August 1778, Penzance – 11 October 1837, Brighton) was principal of the East India Company College. The Batten family were for some time the leading merchants of Penzance. Batten was educated at St Paul's School i ...

, principal of the East India Company College and had eight children, including: *******Sir Arthur Strachey (1858–1901), son of

. he served as a judge in India. *******Winifred Barnes, daughter of

. She was the wife of Indian civil servant Hugh Shakespear Barnes.

Others

Jack Strachey Jack Strachey (25 September 1894 – 27 May 1972) was an English composer and songwriter Born John Francis Strachey in London on 25 September 1894, he began writing songs in the 1920s for the theatre and the music hall, scoring his first success ...

(1894–1972), English composer and songwriter * William Strachey the English writer and barrister

Fiction

Donald Strachey Donald "Don" Strachey is a fictional character who appears in novels by mystery writer Richard Stevenson. Strachey, a gay man, lives in Albany, New York, with his partner Timothy Callahan. Don's clients often feel that his sexual orientation giv ...

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