Ray Strachey [SEP] place of birth
Ray Strachey
Ray Strachey, born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe (4 June 1887 London – 16 July 1940), was a British feminist politician, artist and writer.
Early life.
Her father was Irish barrister Benjamin "Frank" Conn Costelloe, and her mother was art historian Mary Berenson. She was the elder of the two girls in her family. Her younger sister was Karin Stephen, née Costelloe, who married Adrian Stephen, Virginia Woolf's younger brother, in 1914. Ray was educated at Kensington high
, he married Ray Strachey (1887–1940). They had two children, Barbara Strachey (born 1912) and Christopher Strachey (born 1916). Christopher Strachey later became a pioneer in the development of computers and computer languages. Barbara Strachey became a writer.
While at the Foreign Office, he engaged in work on the East Indian Railway and historical research. He co-authored with his wife Ray a work on "Keigwin's Rebellion" (1683–84), an episode in the history of Bombay; it was published