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Richard Strachey
Lieutenant General
Sir Richard Strachey
(1817–1908), British soldier and Indian administrator, third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of
Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet
was born on 24 July 1817, at
Sutton Court
,
Stowey
, Somerset. From
Addiscombe Military Seminary
he passed into the
Bengal Engineers
in 1836, and was employed for some years on
irrigation
works in the
North-Western Provinces
. So many members of the family were in the Indian government that sarcastic mentions were made of the "Government of the Stracheys".
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