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
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politician. He was a member of the
Liberal administrations of
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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and
H. H. Asquith
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between 1905 and 1915.
Background
Strachey was the eldest son of
Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and Mary Isabella (née Symonds).
John Strachey, journalist, and
Henry Strachey, artist, were his younger brothers and the Labour politician
John Strachey his nephew.
Political career
Strachey was returned to
Parliament
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for
Somerset South at the
1892 general election, a seat he held until 1911,
[Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ] and served under
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
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and later
H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom f ...
as
Treasurer of the Household
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from 1905 to 1909 and under Asquith as
from 1909 to 1911.
The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Strachie, of
Sutton Court in the County of Somerset.
In 1912 he was admitted to the
Privy Council and appointed
Paymaster-General
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History
The post was created in 1836 by the merger of the posit ...
, a post he held until 1915. However, he was not offered a ministerial post when the
1915 coalition government was formed, and never returned to political office.
Family
Lord Strachie married Constance, daughter of Charles Bampfylde Braham, in 1880. He died in July 1936, aged 77, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Edward. Lady Strachie only survived her husband by a few months and died in December 1936.
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1858 births
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