Sir Charles William Strickland, 8th Baronet (6 February 1819 – 31 December 1909) was an English barrister and a

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who was in the winning crew in the first

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. He was President of the

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Strickland was born and died at Hildenley Hall, near Malton, Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of

Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet (26 May 1782 – 23 December 1874), also known as Sir George Cholmley was an English Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament and lawyer. He took the name Cholmley to succeed to the Cholmley ...

, of Boynton. He was educated at

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where he is supposed to have been the original of the character 'Martin' in

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. He was admitted to

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on 6 March 1837 and was also admitted at

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on 11 March 1841. Strickland married Georgina Selina Septima Milner, daughter of Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner, Bt on 19 September 1850 and they had a son Walter. He married secondly on 22 May 1866, Anne Elizabeth Nevile, daughter of Rev. Christopher Nevile, of Thorney, Nottinghamshire. They had a son Henry and a daughter. He had two brothers, one of whom Frederick Strickland was a friend of

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and died in tragic circumstances according to Galton's description. He rowed for Trinity College in the crew which won the first

in 1839.R C Lehmann ''The Complete Oarsman''
/ref> Strickland was called to the bar on 6 May 1847 and was also admitted at the

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on 6 February 1849. Strickland was on the Northern Circuit and was chairman of the East Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions. He succeeded his father in the

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and to

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on 23 December 1874. He was

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in 1880.

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