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Strachey Family
The Strachey family originated in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. By the mid-1600s, they were based at Sutton Court in Stowey, Somerset, England. Strachey family * William Strachey the English writer ** William Strachey (c. 1596/97–1635) ***John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke ****John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist *****Thomas Strachey (1699–1740) served in the British Royal Navy. ******Susannah Strachey married Edmund Harper. *******Tristram Harper (1760–1842) ********Harriette Strachey Harper (1802–1889) married John Shephard (1791–1878) *********Hale Horatio Shephard, Sir Horatio Hale Shephard (1842–1921), British lawyer **********Gordon Strachey Shephard, Brigadier-General Gordon Strachey Shephard (1885–1918), Royal Flying Corps commander ********Henry Harper (bishop), Rev. Henry John Chitty Harper (1804–1893), Anglican bishop *********Emily Acland, Emily Weddell Harper (1830–1950) married John Acland (runholder), John Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saffron Walden
Saffron Walden is a market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15,504 at the 2011 census and 16,613 in the 2021 census. History Archaeological evidence suggests continuous settlement on or near the site of Saffron Walden from at least the Neolithic British Isles, Neolithic period. It is believed that a small Romano-British culture, Romano-British settlement and fort – possibly in the area round Abbey Lane – existed as an outpost of the much larger settlement of Great Chesterford, Cestreforda to the north. After the Norman conquest of England, Norman invasion of 1066, a stone church was built. Walden Castle, dating from about 1140, may have been built on pre-existing fortifications. A priory, Walden Abbey, was founded under the patronage of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Esse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Paul Harper
Arthur Paul Harper (27 June 1865 – 30 May 1955) was a New Zealand lawyer, mountaineer, explorer, businessman and conservationist. Known simply as AP or APH, he was born at his parents' house in Armagh Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1865. He was the son of the MP and lawyer Leonard Harper; Bishop Henry Harper was his grandfather. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1884. He was the inaugural secretary and treasurer of the New Zealand Alpine Club, which was founded in July 1891 in Christchurch. In 1935, Harper was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. In 1950, he was awarded the Loder Cup. In the 1952 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ... for services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Strachey (explorer)
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Strachey (1816–1912) was a British officer of the Bengal Army. Despite a longstanding prohibition by the Tibetan authorities on the entry of Europeans into Tibet, Strachey surveyed parts of western Tibet during the late 1840s. He was the second son of Edward Strachey, second son of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet. His brothers included Sir Richard Strachey, Sir John Strachey and Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet. Tibetan surveys In 1846, while a lieutenant of the 66th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, Strachey explored the Tibetan regions surrounding Lakes Manasarovar and Rakshastal. He found a channel between the lakes, suggesting that Manasarovar, and not Rakshastal, was the source of the Sutlej River. Strachey's brother Richard, with J. E. Winterbottom, continued the exploration of the lakes in 1848. In 1847 Strachey was appointed to a boundary commission of Jammu and Kashmir led by Alexander Cunningham. The third member was Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Strachey (artist)
Henry Strachey (1863–1940) was an England, English painter, art critic and writer. He was the son of Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and a cousin of Lytton Strachey. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and exhibited widely between 1888 and 1923 at many galleries and shows, including the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham (four times), the Grosvenor Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (twice), the London Salon (eight times), the New English Art Club, the New Gallery (London), New Gallery (three times) and the Royal Academy of Arts (ten times). He was an accomplished portrait painter and amongst his subjects, in 1914, was the 7 year old Brenda Capron who is better known under her married name as the artist Brenda Pye. He executed a series of panels for the County Council's dining room at Brockwell Park in South London, ''"representing typical scenes of country life : Dawn, with mowers going to work in the field; Noon, two pinafored children by a spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
