Strachey Explained
The Strachey family originated in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. By the mid-1600s, they were based at Sutton Court in Stowey, Somerset, England.
| Strachey |
| Origin: | Saffron Walden, Essex, England |
| Titles: | Baronet Strachey; Baron Strachie |
Strachey family
See also: Strachey Baronets.
- William Strachey the English writer
- William Strachey (c. 1596/97–1635)
- John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke
- John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist
- Thomas Strachey (1699–1740) served in the British Royal Navy.
- Susannah Strachey married Edmund Harper.
- Tristram Harper (1760–1842)
- Henry Strachey of Sutton Court, Somerset
- Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (1737–1810), British politician and civil servant
- Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (1772–1858)
- Edward Strachey (1774–1832) was in the service of the East India Company.
- Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet (1812–1901)
- Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie (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 (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.
- John St. Loe Strachey (1860–1927), journalist and newspaper proprietor
- Henry Strachey (artist) (1863–1940), painter, art critic and writer
- Henry Strachey (explorer) (1816–1912) served in India as an officer in the Bengal Army and was responsible for surveying large portions of western Tibet.
- Richard Strachey (1817–1908) was the husband of the suffragette Jane Maria Strachey (1840–1928) and father of 10 surviving children, including:
- Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) was a writer and thinker and among his prominent works are Eminent Victorians and a celebrated biography of Queen Victoria.
- Pernel Strachey (1876–1951), scholar and educationist and the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
- James Strachey (1887–1967), a psychoanalyst and biographer of Sigmund Freud, married psychoanalyst Alix Strachey (1892–1973).
- Oliver Strachey (1874–1960) was a writer and cryptoanalyst and 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 (1916–1975), computer scientist; son of Oliver and his second wife Ray
- Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (1865–1960), wife of French painter Simon Bussy, wrote one novel, Olivia, about a lesbian relationship.
- Pippa Strachey (1872–1968), suffragist and feminist
- John Strachey (civil servant) (1823–1907) served as an administrator in India. He married Katherine Batten and had eight children, including:
- Richard Strachey (1781–1847)
