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Sir Richard Strachey GCSI FRS FRGS (24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908) was a British soldier and Indian administrator, the third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet.
Stone carvings and sculptures. Richard studied Sculpture at Bath Academy of Arts, when Ken Hughes was head of the department. During the holidays, he worked for Barry Baldwin masonry and Carving Ltd. who helped him with a practical approach to stonework.
Richard Strachey’s work shows pastoral scenes of corn waving in the wind or cows standing under a cloudy sky. Richard gets to know each piece of stone before he carves it: its ragged shape, its colour, density and hardness.
Fue el undécimo de los trece hijos de los aristócratas sir Richard Strachey, teniente general del ejército colonial, y Jane Maria Grant, una activa sufragista. Uno de sus hermanos, James Strachey, fue un destacado psicoanalista y traductor al inglés de las obras de Sigmund Freud.
Strachey was elected Chairman of the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society (1883) and President of the Royal Geographical Society (1888-1890). His son was the Victorian biographer and essayist Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932).
Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 at Stowey House, Clapham Common, London, the fifth son and 11th child of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey, an officer in the British colonial armed forces, and his second wife, the former Jane Grant, who became a leading supporter of the women's suffrage movement.
Sir Richard Strachey (* 24. Juli 1817 in Stowey (Somerset); † 12. Februar 1908 in Camden, London) war ein britischer Offizier, Kolonialbeamter in Indien und Naturwissenschaftler. Strachey stammte aus einer Familie von Kolonialbeamten in Britisch-Indien.
