The Strachey Baronetcy, of Sutton Court

Sutton Court

Sutton Court, Stowey, also known as Stowey Court, is a large English house built on the site of a fourteenth century castle, with sections built in the fifteenth and sixteenth century....

 in the County of Somerset

Somerset

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, England

England

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, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 15 June 1801 for the politician and civil servant Henry Strachey

Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was a British civil servant and politician.Strachey was the eldest son of Henry Strachey, of Sutton Court, Somerset, and his first wife Helen, daughter of Robert Clerk, a Scottish physician. His grandfather was the geologist John Strachey and his great-grandfather...

. His great-grandson, the fourth Baronet, was a Liberal

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 politician. On 3 November 1911 he was created Baron Strachie, of Sutton Court in the County of Somerset, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. He later served as Paymaster-General

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. The peerage became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 1973. The late Baron was succeeded in the baronetcy by his first cousin once removed, the sixth Baronet. He was the son of John Strachey, son and namesake of John Strachey, second son of the third Baronet. Strachey does not use his title. Also, as of 2007 he has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant.

Several other members of the Strachey family have also gained distinction. John Strachey

John Strachey (geologist)

John Strachey was a British geologist.He was born in Chew Magna, England, a member of the Strachey Baronets. He inherited estates including Sutton Court from his father at three years of age. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford and was admitted at Middle Temple, London, in 1688...

, grandfather of the first Baronet, was a noted geologist, while his father, John Strachey (d. 1674), was a friend of John Locke

John Locke

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. Edward Strachey, second son of the first Baronet, was the father of 1) the civil servant John Strachey, and 2) Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey

Richard Strachey

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey, GCSI, FRS , British soldier and Indian administrator, third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was born on 24 July 1817, at Sutton Court, Stowey, Somerset...

, who was the father of Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit...

, James Strachey

James Strachey

James Beaumont Strachey was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English...

, Oliver Strachey

Oliver Strachey

Oliver Strachey , a British civil servant in the Foreign Office was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II....

 and Dorothy Bussy

Dorothy Bussy

Dorothy Bussy was an English novelist and translator.-Family background and childhood:Dorothy Bussy was a member of the Strachey family, one of ten children of Jane Strachey and the great British Empire soldier and administrator Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey...

. The aforementioned John Strachey, second son of the third Baronet, was a noted journalist, while his son John Strachey was a Labour

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 politician. Another son of the third Baronet, Henry Strachey

Henry Strachey (artist)

Henry Strachey was an English painter and art critic.He was born in 1863, the son of Sir Edward Strachey and was a cousin of Lytton Strachey....

, was a painter and art critic.

The family surname is pronounced "Stray-chee".

Strachey Baronets, of Sutton Court (1801)

• Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was a British civil servant and politician.Strachey was the eldest son of Henry Strachey, of Sutton Court, Somerset, and his first wife Helen, daughter of Robert Clerk, a Scottish physician. His grandfather was the geologist John Strachey and his great-grandfather...
  
   (1737–1810)
• Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (1772–1858)
• Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet (1812–1901)
• Sir Edward Strachey, 4th Baronet
  Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie
  Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie PC , known as Sir Edward Strachey, Bt, between 1901 and 1911, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H...
  
   (1858–1936) (created Baron Strachie in 1911)

Barons Strachie (1911)

• Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie
  Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie
  Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie PC , known as Sir Edward Strachey, Bt, between 1901 and 1911, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H...
  
   (1858–1936)
• Edward Strachey, 2nd Baron Strachie (1882–1973)

Strachey Baronets, of Sutton Court (1801; Reverted)

• (Sir) Charles Strachey, 6th Baronet (b. 1934)

Sources

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Stephen, Sir Leslie; Lee, Sir Sydney (editors). The Dictionary of National Biography: Volume XXII, Supplement. Oxford University Press
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