Key facts
- Born
- Giles Lytton Strachey , ( 1880-03-01 ) 1 March 1880, London , England
- Died
- 21 January 1932 (1932-01-21) (aged 51), Ham , Wiltshire , England
- Occupation
- Author, critic
- Alma mater
- University of Liverpool Trinity College, Cambridge
- Parents
- Sir Richard Strachey , Jane Grant
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Berkshire
- Father
- Richard Strachey
- Mother
- Jane Strachey
- Sibling
- Philippa Strachey
- Occupation
- biographer
- Educated at
- Abbotsholme School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Movement
- Bloomsbury Group
- Image
- Carrington - Strachey.jpg
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Lytton Strachey
- date of birth
- 1880-03-01
- date of death
- 1932-01-21
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- member of
- Cambridge Apostles
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Giles Lytton Strachey
- unmarried partner
- Dora Carrington
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- P12749
- Adam von Trott zu Solz
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Lytton Strachey, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lytton Strachey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.