Oliver strachey biography

  • Oliver Strachey CBE, a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II.
  • Oliver Strachey CBE (3 November 1874 – 14 May 1960), a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II.
  • Oliver Strachey, né le 3 novembre 1874 et mort le 14 mai 1960, est un fonctionnaire du Foreign Office et un cryptanalyste des services spéciaux britanniques.

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    Oliver Strachey (1874 - 1960)

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    Born in London
    Ancestors

    Son of Richard Strachey GCSI FRS and Jane Maria (Grant) Strachey

    Brother of Richard John Strachey, Dorothy (Strachey) Bussy, Ralph Strachey, Philippa Strachey, Joan Pernel Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey, Marjorie Colville Strachey and James Beaumont Strachey

    Husband of Rachel Pearsall Conn (Costelloe) Strachey — married 1911 [location unknown]

    Father of Barbara Strachey and Christopher Strachey

    Died at age 85 [location unknown]

    Profile last modified | Created 22 Sep 2014

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    Biography

    Oliver was born in 1874. He is the son of Richard Strachey and Jane Grant. He was "a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II." [1]

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    Sources

    • "Oliver Strachey," Wikipedia site [2].

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      Oliver Strachey

      British cryptographer (1874–1960)

      Oliver StracheyCBE (3 November 1874 – 14 May 1960), a British civil servant in the utländsk Office, was a cryptographer from World War inom to World War II.

      Life and work

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      Strachey was a son of Sir Richard Strachey, colonial administrator and Jane Maria Strachey, writer and suffragist, and a brother of the writer Lytton Strachey, the writer Dorothy Bussy and the psychoanalyst and editor of the Standard EditionJames Strachey. He was educated at Eton College; he attended Balliol College, Oxford for one term (Hilary 1893). His parents sent him on a tour around the world with Robert Bridges.[citation needed] Then he studied the piano in Vienna under Theodor Leschetizky. While there he attended the funeral of Johannes Brahms in 1897.[1] His playing was of a certain standard, but not up to concert performance, so he returned to England and joined the utländsk Office.[1]

      His first marriage, in

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      Oliver Strachey; Lytton Strachey Portrait Print

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