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  1. Sir Henry Strachey (father) Military service. Branch. British Indian Army. Rank. Lieutenant-general. Wars. First Anglo-Sikh War. Sir Richard Strachey GCSI FRS FRGS (24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908) was a British soldier and Indian administrator, the third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet .

  2. Aug 28, 2018 · It was set up in 1878 under the Chairmanship of Sir Richard Strachey. The commission recommended state interference in food trade in the event of famine. India witnessed another major famine in ...

  3. Great famine of 1876-78 was the most grievous calamity experienced since the beginning of the 19 th century. Affected Madras, Bombay, Uttar Pradesh & Punjab and about 5 million people perished in a year. The Government made half-hearted efforts to help the famine stricken. In 1880, Lytton appointed a commission under Richard Strachey to ...

  4. Strachey had a number of official posts until appointed member of the council of the secretary of state for India (1875-1889), resigning to become chairman of the East Indian Railway Company. Involved with finance of India over many years, he attended the International Monetary Conference at Brussels (1892) as delegate for British India.

  5. From the very beginning Richard Strachey took up the white man's burden with the energy and confidence of a born leader, and whether he applied his high scientific ability to the training of waterways and irrigation through the dry spaces of upper India, working as a navvy in his shirt-sleeves, or whether, having donned the

  6. To give any adequate impression of a career which extended from 1836, when Richard Strachey left Addiscombe to join the corps of engineers of the East India Company, to 1907, when he retired from ...

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  8. Stone carvings and sculptures. Richard studied Sculpture at Bath Academy of Arts, when Ken Hughes was head of the department. During the holidays, he worked for Barry Baldwin masonry and Carving Ltd. who helped him with a practical approach to stonework. After leaving college, he worked as a conservator, mason and carver on many historical ...