The Strachey family originated in

Saffron Walden Saffron Walden is a market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. Th ...

, Essex, England. By the mid-1600s, they were based at

Sutton Court Sutton Court is an English house remodelled by Thomas Henry Wyatt in the 1850s from a manor house built in the 15th and 16th centuries around a 14th-century fortified pele tower and surrounding buildings. The house has been designated as Grad ...

Stowey Stowey is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stowey Sutton, in the Bath and North East Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It lies within the Chew Valley, south of Chew Valley Lake and ...

, Somerset, England.

Strachey family

William Strachey William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 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 ...

the English writer ** William Strachey (c. 1596/97–1635) ***John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of

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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 *****Thomas Strachey (1699–1740) served in the British Royal Navy. ******Susannah Strachey married Edmund Harper. *******Tristram Harper (1760–1842) ********Harriette Strachey Harper (1802–1889) married John Shephard (1791–1878) ********* Sir Horatio Hale Shephard (1842–1921), British lawyer ********** Brigadier-General Gordon Strachey Shephard (1885–1918), Royal Flying Corps commander ******** Rev. Henry John Chitty Harper (1804–1893), Anglican bishop ********* Emily Weddell Harper (1830–1950) married John Barton Arundel Acland (1823-1904). ********** Sir Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland (1874–1956), New Zealand surgeon *********** Sir Hugh John Dyke "Jack" Acland (1904–1981), New Zealand politician *********Mary Anna Harper (1832–1924) married Charles Robert Blakiston (1825–1898). ********* Ven. Henry William Harper (1833–1922), Anglican priest *********Ellen Shephard Harper (1834–1916) married Charles George Tripp (1826–1897). ********* Leonard Harper (1837–1915), New Zealand politician **********

Arthur Paul Harper Arthur Paul Harper (27 June 1865 – 30 May 1955) was a New Zealand lawyer, mountaineer, explorer, businessman and conservationist. Known simply as AP or APH, he was born at his parents' house in Armagh Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, in ...

(1865–1955), New Zealand lawyer ********* Sir George Harper (1843–1937), New Zealand lawyer ********** Eric Tristram Harper (1877–1918), New Zealand rugby player *****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, ...

(1737–1810), British politician and civil servant *******

Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (December 6, 1772 – April 11, 1858) was a British civil servant in India. Life Henry Strachey was born on December 6, 1772, to Henry Strachey (later 1st Baronet) and his wife Jane Kelsall Latham Strachey. As a ...

(1772–1858) *******Edward Strachey (1774–1832) was in the service of the

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

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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 In ...

(1812–1901) *********

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 **********Edward Strachey, 2nd Baron Strachie (1882–1973) **********Frances Constance Maddalena (d.1931) 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 Cha ...

(1882–1961), British Liberal politician. ***********Major Thomas Anthony Edward Towneley Strachey (died 1955), 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 (6 September 1945 – 23 March 2025) was a British Conservative politician. Early years and background O'Hagan was born a godson of Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. The grandson of Mau ...

(1945–2025), British Conservative politician *********

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 Edw ...

(1860–1927), journalist and newspaper proprietor **********

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 th ...

(1901–1963), British politician ***********Charles Strachey, presumed 6th Baronet (1934–2014) *********

Henry Strachey (artist) Henry Strachey (1863–1940) was an England, English painter, art critic and writer. 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 exhibited widely b ...

(1863–1940), painter, art critic and writer ********

Henry Strachey (explorer) Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Strachey (1816–1912) was a 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 western Tibet dur ...

(1816–1912) 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 Gover ...

and was responsible for surveying large portions of western Tibet. *********Julia Charlotte Chance married in 1884 barrister William Chance (later 2nd Baronet Chance), of the wealthy family which owned the glassmaking company

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. The couple's residence, Orchards, Surrey, 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 memorials ...

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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) was the 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 psychology, psychologic ...

(1880–1932) was a writer and thinker and 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 biography, biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreve ...

'' 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 Lieute ...

(1876–1951), scholar and educationist and the principal of

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

(1887–1967), a psychoanalyst and biographer of Sigmund Freud, married psychoanalyst

Alix Strachey Alix Strachey (née Sargant-Florence; 4 June 1892 – 28 April 1973) 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 J ...

(1874–1960) was a writer and cryptoanalyst and worked at

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during

WWII World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. 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 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., T ...

(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. Her mother was suffragist J ...

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

Olivia Olivia may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olivia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Olivia (singer), American singer Olivia Longott (born 1981) * Olívia (basketball), Brazilian basketball playe ...

'', 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 S ...

(1872–1968), suffragist and feminist ********

John Strachey (civil servant) Sir John Strachey (5 June 1823 – 19 December 1907) was a British civil servant and writer in India who served as List of lieutenant-governors of the North-Western Provinces, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces from 1874 to 187 ...

(1823–1907) served as an administrator in India. He married Katherine Batten and had eight children, including: ********* Sir Arthur Strachey (1858–1901) served as a judge in India. *********Winifred Barnes was the wife of Indian civil servant Hugh Shakespear Barnes. ********** Mary Barnes (1889–1977) married St John Hutchinson (1884–1942). ***********

Jeremy Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington Jeremy Nicolas Hutchinson, Baron Hutchinson of Lullington, (28 March 1915 – 13 November 2017) was a British barrister. Standing as a Labour candidate in the 1945 general election, he finally entered Parliament as a life peer in 1978, event ...

(1915–2017), British barrister ***********Barbara Judith Barnes married Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990). **********

James Strachey Barnes James Strachey Barnes (1890–1955) was a theorist of British fascism. Life He was born in India, the son of Hugh Shakespear Barnes and his wife Winifred Strachey, daughter of Sir John Strachey. Brought up in Florence by his Strachey grandparents ...

(1890–1955), British theorist of Fascism *********Charles Strachey **********

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 succes ...

(1894–1972), English composer and songwriter *******Richard Strachey (1781–1847) ********Mary Augusta Strachey (1838–1914), English co-author of The Great Book-Collectors, married

Charles Isaac Elton Charles Isaac Elton, QC (6 December 1839 – 23 April 1900) was an English lawyer, antiquary, and politician. He is most famous for being one of the authors of the bestselling book '' The Great Book-Collectors''. Biography He was born in So ...

(1839–1900). ********Isabel Strachey (1845–1920) married John Holland Baker (1841–1930). ********* Noeline Baker (1878–1958), New Zealand suffragist {{surname *