Strachey

Strachey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Strachey family of Sutton Court, Somerset

  • John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke
    • John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743), British geologist
      • Henry Strachey of Sutton Court, Somerset
        • Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet (1737–1810), British politician and civil servant; son of Henry Strachey and grandson of the geologist John Strachey. He had at least two sons:
          • Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet (1772–1858), eldest son of the 1st baronet
          • Edward Strachey (1774–1832), second son of the 1st baronet; he was in the service of the East India Company. He had at least five sons, including:

Others

Fiction

gollark: So if you have an object with the left half in shadow or something, even though a camera sees each side as having *wildly* different colors, you'll just think "oh, that's yellow" or something like that.
gollark: Human color processing isn't measuring something like "what amounts of reddish/greenish/blueish light is falling on this set of cones", it's trying to work out "what object is this and what are the lighting conditions".
gollark: Besides that, you don't perceive colors that way.
gollark: The problem is that what hex code you get out of a picture depends entirely on stuff like lighting and probably camera calibration.
gollark: Same thing.
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