[1] Walter George Strickland was born at Sizergh castle, Kendal, Westmorland, England on 3 June 1850.
The Stricklands lived at 50 Waterloo Road, moving to 118 Baggot Street in the 1920s, and finally Newtown House, Blackrock, County Dublin.
In this position he made important contributions to the study of historical painting and portraiture, compiling a catalogue of the Gallery's national portraits, utilising his knowledge of Irish biography.
As well as presenting biographies of artists active in Ireland, it also covered engravers, sculptors, art societies and institutions.
In 1921 he delivered a lecture to the RIA entitled The ancient system of municipal government in Dublin, its origin and development.
[1] In a collaboration with Francis Elrington Ball, he worked on corrections and marginal notes for Dublin street names by Christopher Teeling McCready (1892), presenting the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI) with their copy in 1917.