Gen Sir Richard STRACHEY [25513]

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Strachey was a 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,[1] 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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Richard married Caroline Anne BOWLES [25512] [MRIN: 9199], daughter of Rev George Downing BOWLES [25508] and Anne STILLINGFLEET [25509], on 27 Dec 1854 in St Mary Gt Malvern WOR. (Caroline Anne BOWLES [25512] was born in Fawley Southampton HAM, baptised on 19 Jan 1831 in Fawley Southampton HAM and died in 1855.)

Richard next married Jane Maria GRANT [25572] [MRIN: 9217] on 4 Jan 1859.