George Strahan (engineer)

Strahan was involved in producing relief maps and because colour printing had not yet been introduced, he found photozincography unfit for his purpose.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1869 and contributed notes on the comet of 1882, a meteor shower in 1885 and observed the eclipse of 22 January 1898 in Norway.

Strahan claimed that as a boy he had been influenced into landscape painting by a gift of John Ruskin's Modern Painters from his mother when he was just fifteen.

He entered his paintings into the annual exhibitions in Shimla and won the Viceroy's prize three times.

After retirement he lived for sometime in Dehra Dun but would travel to Kashmir in summer for climbs.