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 Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist ***Henry Strachey of Sutton Court, Somerset ****

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 ...

(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 The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and South ...

. He had at least five sons, including: ****** Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet (1812–1901), eldest son of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) and nephew of the second baronet. He had three sons: *******

Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie 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-Banne ...

(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 (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 (1860–1927), journalist and newspaper proprietor; second son of the third baronet. He had three sons, including: ********

John Strachey (politician) 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 t ...

(1901–1963), British politician; third and youngest son of John St. Loe Strachey *********Charles Strachey, presumed 6th Baronet (1934–2014) ******* Henry Strachey (artist) (1863–1940), painter, art critic and writer; third son of the third baronet ******

Henry Strachey (explorer) Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Strachey (1816–1912) was a British Empire, British officer of the Bengal Army. Despite a longstanding prohibition by the Tibetan authorities on the entry of Europeans into Tibet, Strachey surveyed parts of west ...

(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 and was responsible for surveying large portions of western Tibet. He had issue an only daughter *******Julia Charlotte Chance, daughter of

. In 1884, she married barrister William Chance (later 2nd Baronet Chance), of the wealthy family which owned the glassmaking company

Chance Brothers Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands (formerly in Staffordshire), in England. It was a leading glass manufacturer and a pioneer of British glassmaking technology. The Chance fam ...

. 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. ******

Richard Strachey Sir Richard Strachey (24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908) was a British soldier and Indian administrator, the third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet. Early life He was born on 24 July 1817, at Sutton ...

(1817–1908), third son of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) and younger brother of the 3rd baronet; husband of the suffragette Jane Maria Strachey (1840–1928) and father of 10 surviving children, including: *******

Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey (; 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 ...

(1880–1932), son of Richard; writer and thinker; among his prominent works are ''

Eminent Victorians ''Eminent Victorians'' is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918, and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and w ...

'' and a celebrated biography of Queen Victoria *******

Pernel Strachey Pernel Strachey or Joan Pernel Strachey (4 March 1876 – 19 December 1951) was an English scholar of French and Principal of Newnham College. Life Strachey was born in Clapham Common in London in 1876. She came from a large family led by Lieuten ...

(1876–1951), daughter of Richard; scholar and educationist; principal of

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*******

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 Standar ...

(1887–1967), son of Richard; psychoanalyst and biographer of Sigmund Freud; husband of psychoanalyst

Alix Strachey Alix Strachey (4 June 1892 – 28 April 1973), née Sargant-Florence, was an American-born British psychoanalyst and, with her husband, the translator into English of ''The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud''. ...

(1892–1973) *******

Oliver Strachey Oliver Strachey CBE (3 November 1874 – 14 May 1960), a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Life and work Strachey was a son of Sir Richard Strachey, colonial administrator and ...

(1874–1960), son of Richard; writer and cryptoanalyst; worked at

Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes ( Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years followin ...

during

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. His wives were Ruby Mayer and the feminist Ray Costelloe Strachey (1887–1940). He had three children: ********

Julia Strachey Julia Strachey (14 August 1901 – 1979) was an English writer, born in Allahabad, India, where her father, Oliver Strachey, the elder brother of Lytton Strachey, was a civil servant. Her mother, Ruby Mayer (1881-1959), was of Swiss-German ori ...

(1901–1979), writer; daughter of Oliver and his first wife Ruby Mayer ********

Barbara Strachey Barbara Halpern Strachey (17 July 1912 – 15 October 1999 in Oxford, England) was a British author. Barbara Strachey was born to parents Oliver Strachey, a cryptographer in World War I and World War II, and the feminist politician, writer, and ...

(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 Dorothy Bussy ( Strachey; 24 July 1865 – 1 May 1960) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group. Family background and childhood Dorothy Bussy was a member of the Strachey family, one of ten children of Jane St ...

(née Strachey) (1865–1960), daughter of Richard, wife of French painter Simon Bussy; she wrote one novel, ''

Olivia Olivia may refer to: People * Olivia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Olivia (singer) (Olivia Longott, born 1981), American singer * Olívia (basketball) (Carlos Henrique Rodrigues do Nascimento, born 19 ...

'', 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 Str ...

(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, principal of the

East India Company College The East India Company College, or East India College, was an educational establishment situated at Hailey, Hertfordshire, nineteen miles north of London, founded in 1806 to train "writers" (administrators) for the Honourable East India Company ( ...

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 Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes (14 July 1853 – 15 February 1940) was an English administrator in British India. He served as Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan several times during the 19th century. Early life and education Barnes was born in Shah ...

Others

* Jack Strachey (1894–1972), English composer and songwriter *

William Strachey William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 21 June 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter o ...

the English writer and barrister

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* Donald Strachey detective in Albany, NY {{surname *