Sir Edward Strickland, KCB, (7 August 1820[1] – 18 July 1889) was a British Army officer, commissariat officer in charge of the British army of occupation in Greece from 1855 to 1857 and a vice-president of the Geographical Society of Australasia.
[2] He was born at Loughglynn House, County Roscommon and married, first in 1842, Georgina Frances (died 1876),[1] daughter of Frederick Augustus Hely, of Enghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, and secondly, in 1877, Frances Marie, only daughter of General Tatton Browne Greave, C.B., of Orde House, Northumberland.
He served in the Crimea during the first year of the war, including the battle of the Alma and the advance on Sebastopol, and was commissariat officer in charge of the British army of occupation in Greece from 1855 to 1857.
[2] After retiring from the army he came to reside in Sydney, and took a prominent part in the work of the Geographical Society of Australasia, of which he was vice-president, especially of the New South Wales branch, of which he was president.
Sir Edward is stated to have been the first to suggest the despatch of the famous Soudan Contingent.