Person    | Male  Born 1/3/1880  Died 21/1/1932

Giles Lytton Strachey

Categories: Literature

Critic and biographer known professionally as Lytton Strachey. At Cambridge he joined The Apostles. Was a prominent conscientious objector in WW1.

His Wikipedia page gives a comprehensive overview of his life. He died from stomach cancer, aged 51 years on 21 January 1932 at Ham Spray House, Ham Spray, Marlborough, Wiltshire, his death being registered in the 1st quarter of 1932 in the Hungerford Registration District, Berkshire. He was buried in St Andrew's Churchyard, Chewton Magna, Somerset. Probate was granted on 19 March 1932 to a younger brother, James Beaumont Strachey (1887-1967), who was an author. His effects totalled £8,362-10s-3d, but were subsequently resworn to £9,655-3s-1d. 

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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