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​STRACHEY, SIR JOHN (1823-1907), British Indian civilian, fifth son of Edward Strachey, was born in London on the 5th of June 1823.

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Strachey had written a history and where John Strachey s son Dr. John Strachey (—) settled and died.

William Smith () began acquiring his geological knowledge and experience while making a probate survey of an estate at Stowey.

Sir John Strachey (), Administrator in India.

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(Giles) Lytton Strachey (), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey.

After passing through Haileybury, Strachey entered the Bengal civil service in 1842, and served in the North-Western Provinces, occupying many important positions. In 1861 Lord Canning appointed him president of a commission to investigate the great cholera epidemic of that year.

In 1862 he became judicial commissioner in the Central Provinces. In 1864, after the report of the royal commission on the sanitary condition of the army, a permanent sanitary commission was established in India, with Strachey as president.

In 1866 he became chief commissioner of Oudh, having been chosen by Lord Lawrence to remedy as far as possible the injustice done after the Mutiny by the confiscation of the rights of tenants and small proprietors of land, maintaining at the same time the privileges of the Talukdars