Strain, Ronald Loudon, brother of John Loudon Strain (qv); b. 30 Aug. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (A); left July 1927; drowned at Bude, Cornwall, 4 Aug. 1927.
Strain, Malcolm Kenneth, brother of John Loudon Strain (qv); b. 30 Dec. 1912; adm. May 1927 (A); left Apr. 1930; RASC 1939-45, attd Roy. Signals Egypt and Italy; ICI Plastics Divn, later P & O Shipping Co.; retd 1978; m. 8 Jan. 1953 Pamela Jane Steel, teacher, d. of Francis George Steel, Lloyd's insurance agent; d. Feb. 2004.
Strain, John Loudon, eldest son of William Loudon Strain, M.B., of Wimbledon, by Dorothy Maud, daughter of the Rev. Ernest Lloyd Savory, of Stowmarket, Suffolk; b. Aug. 20, 1896; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (A); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1915, matric. Michaelmas 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (Spec. Res.) Dec. 17, 1915; acting Capt. May 24, 1917; went out to the western front Sept. 1916; killed in action at Frezenberg, Flanders, July 31, 1917.
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.