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STRACHEY, EDWARD, second son of Sir Henry Strachey, Bart. (adm. 1750, qv); b. 18 Dec 1774; adm. 21 Jan 1783; St. Andrews Univ.; Writer, EICS Bengal 1792; Commissioner, Court of Requests 1793; Deputy Register of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut 1800; Secretary to Resident, Patna 1801; Judge, Zillah of Agra 1806; Second Judge, Provincial Court of Appeal, Dacca; retd. 1815; Examiner at India House, London, 1820; an intimate friend of Mountstuart Elphinstone, who acknowledged his debt to Strachey’s advice and example (Colebrooke, Life of Hon. Mounstuart Elphinstone, 1884, ii, 309); author, translation of Bija Ganita, 1813; m. 13 Oct 1808 Julia, youngest dau. of Major-Gen. William Kirkpatrick, EICS Bengal; d. 3 Jan 1832. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.