Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie

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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Strachie

| honorific-suffix = PC

| image =Lord Strachie.jpg

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| order1 = Paymaster General

| term_start1 = 23 May 1912

| term_end1 = 25 May 1915

| monarch1 = George V

| primeminister1 = H. H. Asquith

| predecessor1 = The Lord Ashby St Ledgers

| successor1 = The Lord Newton

| birth_date = {{birth-date|30 October 1858|}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1936|7|25|1858|10|30}}

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| nationality = British

| party = Liberal

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| spouse = {{marriage|Constance Braham |1880}}

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Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, PC (30 October 1858 – 25 July 1936), known as Sir Edward Strachey, Bt, between 1901 and 1911, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith between 1905 and 1915.

Background

Strachey was the eldest son of Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet, and Mary Isabella (née Symonds). John Strachey, journalist, and Henry Strachey, artist, were his younger brothers and the Labour politician John Strachey his nephew.

Political career

Strachey was returned to Parliament for Somerset South at the 1892 general election, a seat he held until 1911,Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons3.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Shankill to Southampton |access-date=12 September 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008224720/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons3.htm |archive-date=8 October 2018 }} and served under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as Treasurer of the Household from 1905 to 1909 and under Asquith as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1909 to 1911. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Strachie, of Sutton Court in the County of Somerset.{{London Gazette |issue=28547 |date=3 November 1911 |page=7952 }} In 1912 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed Paymaster General,{{London Gazette |issue=28618 |date=14 June 1912 |page=4303 }} a post he held until 1915. However, he was not offered a ministerial post when the 1915 coalition government was formed, and never returned to political office.

Family

Lord Strachie married Constance, daughter of Charles Bampfylde Braham, in 1880. He died in July 1936, aged 77, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Edward. Lady Strachie only survived her husband by a few months and died in December 1936.{{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p6658.htm |title= thepeerage.com Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie |publisher= The Peerage}}{{Unreliable source?|failed=y |date=February 2013}}