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Strain, Ernest Douglas, brother of John Loudon Strain (qv); b. 20 Aug. 1906; adm. Apr. 1920 (A); left Apr. 1925; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (Flt Lieut.), despatches June 1942 and Jan. 1945; mem­ber Lond. Stock Exchange 1932-48; sec. Roy. Ashdown Golf Club 1952-62; m. 11 June 1932 Marjorie, d. of Edwin Arrowsmith of Cheltenham; d. 11 July 1985.

Strain, Alan Gordon, brother of John Loudon Strain (qv); b. 1 Dec. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (A); left July 1933; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; Sgt Army Educational Corps; d. on active service 10 Aug. 1943.

Alan Gordon Strain was born at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey on the 1st of December 1914 the fifth and youngest son of Dr. William Loudon Strain MD CM and Dorothy Maud (nee Savory) Strain of 4, Hove Court, Raymond Road, Wimbledon in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from January 1928 to July 1933. He matriculated for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1934 and was awarded a BA in 1937. On leaving university he went to work as a school teacher at Collington Rise Preparatory School, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Army Educational Corps where he rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was taken ill and was in a hospital at Epsom for three months before he died.
His brother, Captain John Loudon Strain OW, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed in action on the 31st of July 1917.
He is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium Block I, Grave 363.

STRAHAN, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 10) May 1720; left 1721. [Whitmore suggests that this is probably “Mr. Strahan” who in Feb 1733/4 was nominated as Steward, Anniversary Dinner, for following year, but was this John Strahan old enough, and a sufficiently substantial citizen, to have been selected as Steward as early as then ?]. [Perhaps John Strahan, son of James Strahan, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. St. Faith’s, London 18 Nov 1708 (IGI)].

STRADLING, GILBERT, son of Very Rev. George Stradling DD, Dean of Chichester and Prebendary of Westminster, and Margaret, dau. of Sir William Salter, Kt, Iver, Bucks., Carver to Charles I; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1681; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, matr. 17 Dec 1685, aged 18, Westminster Student from 22 Dec 1685, Catechist 1715-26; BA 1689; MA 1692; ordained; resided in Christ Church until his death, latterly a recluse; d. unm. 25 Oct 1727. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Strachey, (Sir) Charles (Bart. ), son of Evelyn John St Loe Strachey PC MP, Sec. of State for War, Labour politician, and his second wife Celia, d. of Rev. Arthur Hume Simpson, Rector of St Mary Magdalene, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex; b. 20 June 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1952; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1955, BA 1958, MA 1962; res. EMI 1958-62; marketing man. Ford 1962-75; succ. his cousin Edward Strachey, 2nd Baron Strachey, as 6th Bart. 17 May 1973, but did not assume the title; economic development officer Islington Council 1976-93; m. 1973 Janet Megan, d. of Alexander Miller; d. 18 June 2014.

STRACHEY, RICHARD, third son of Sir Henry Strachey, Bart. (adm. 1750, qv); b. 21 May 1781; in school lists 1795, 1797 (Clapham); of Ashwick Grove, Somerset; DL JP Somerset; a copy of the Eton Microcosm, presented to him by Thomas Clapham (qv), in which Strachey described Clapham as “domi Usherii et verberatoris acerbissimi”, was preserved at Ashwick Grove; m. 1 Jun 1830 Anne Maria, dau. of Alexander Powell MP, Hurdcott House, Wilts. ; d. 5 May 1847.

STRACHEY, JOHN, eldest son of John Strachey (adm. 1750, qv); b. 4 Apr 1773; adm. 12 Jun 1787; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Jul 1789, matr. 1789; Writer, EICS Bengal 1791; arrived in India 7 Aug 1791; Assistant to Persian Translator and Commissioner of Court of Requests 1791; Register of Dewanny Adawlut, Tirhoot 1793; Judge, Mymensingh 1800; Judge and Magistrate, Kanpur 1803; res. in India 3 Mar 1804; d. at Mahè, India 17 Nov 1808.

STRACHEY, JOHN, brother of Sir Henry Strachey, Bart. (adm. 1750, qv); b. 20 Jul 1737; adm. Jun 1750; KS 1751; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1756, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1756, scholar 6 May 1757, matr. 1756; BA 1760; MA 1763; LLD 1770; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1761; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 1760, priest (Winchester) 24 Jun 1763; an Usher at the School 1761; Domestic Chaplain to Right Rev. Philip Yonge (qv), Bishop of Norwich; Rector of Erpingham, Norfolk, from 1769; Rector of Thwaite, Norfolk, from 1773; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III Apr 1774 (still 1808); Archdeacon of Suffolk from 5 Mar 1781; Preacher at the Rolls Chapel 1783; Prebendary of Llandaff from 7 Jun 1786; FSA 28 May 1772; superintended the printing of the Rolls of Parliament from Edward I to the nineteenth year of Henry VII, published in six folio volumes in 1777; m. 14 Nov 1770 Anne, sister of John Wombwell (qv); d. 17 Dec 1818.