Oliver strachey biography
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Oliver Strachey (1874 - 1960)
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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
[edit]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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