Strachey

Strachey is a surname and may refer to:

Strachey family of Sutton Court, Somerset

• John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke
  • John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist, son of the above
    • Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (1737–1810), British politician and civil servant, grandson of the above
      • Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (1772–1858), son of 1st baronet
        • John Strachey (civil servant) (1823–1907), Indian civil servant, grandson of the 1st Baronet

• Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie (1858–1936), Liberal politician
• Henry Strachey (artist) (1863–1940)
• John Strachey (journalist) (1860–1927), man of letters
  • John Strachey (politician) (1901–1963), British politician, son of the above

• Sir Richard Strachey (1817–1908) soldier, engineer, civil servant, grandson of the 1st Baronet
• Lady Jane Strachey (1840 - 1928), formerly Jane Maria Grant, his wife; author, suffragette
  • James Strachey (1887–1967), the biographer of Sigmund Freud
    • Alix Strachey (1892–1973), his wife; psychoanalyst
  • Oliver Strachey (1874–1960), the writer and cryptoanalyst, worked at Bletchley Park in WWII
  • Rachel Conn (Ray) Costelloe (1887–1940), writer, wife of Oliver
    • Julia Strachey (1901 - 1979), writer, daughter of Oliver
    • Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), computer scientist, son of Oliver and Ray
  • Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), British writer, son of Richard
  • Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey)(1865–1960), writer and translator, daughter of Richard

• Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan (1882–1961), British Liberal politician; grandson of the above Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie - later changed his surname by deed poll to Strachey
  • Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'Hagan (*1945), British Conservative politician; grandson of the above

Others

• William Strachey the English writer and barrister
• Henry Strachey (explorer) (1816–1912).

Fiction

• Donald Strachey detective in Albany, NY