Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet

Born at Sutton Court, Chew Magna, Somerset, on 12 August 1812, he was eldest of the six sons of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) of the Bengal service of the East India Company, son of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet, and his wife Julia Woodburn, third daughter of Major-general William Kirkpatrick.

His affliction forced him to give up the plan, but he spent the second half of the year with Maurice at Guy's Hospital.

As a disciple of Maurice he was an Anglican, but opposed to the High Church doctrines, and interested in biblical criticism.

In 1870 wrote a series of articles in the Daily News on the proposed Irish Land bill, for which material was supplied him by his friend and neighbour Chichester Fortescue.

He re-married, on 3 November 1857, to Mary Isabella Symonds, second daughter of John Addington Symonds; she died on 5 October 1883, leaving three sons and a daughter: Attribution This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed.