Richard Strachey
1817–1908
Army officer, botanist, and geographer. Served in the Bengal engineers; lieutenant, 1841; major-general, 1871; lieutenant-general, 1875. Studied botany, physical geography, and geology in India. Carried out scientific expeditions in the Himalayas. Collected plants in Tibet, 1848. Consulting engineer in the railway department, 1858; secretary and head of the public works department, 1862. Member of the Council of India, 1875–89. President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1888–90. FRS 1854.
Sources
ODNB
Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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