Ray Strachey
(1887-1940), Feminist activist, artist and writerRachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
Sitter associated with 64 portraits
Artist associated with 99 portraits
Born Rachel, Ray was the daughter of Frank and Mary Costelloe; her mother later married Bernard Berenson. Formidably clever from her schooldays, she read mathematics at Cambridge and studied electrical engineering at Oxford before committing herself to women's suffrage. She was Secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Chairman of the Women's Service Bureau and a joint-founder of the League of Nations Union. She was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate, but acted briefly as political secretary to Nancy Astor.
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, circa 1911
NPG x88552
by Ray Strachey
gelatin printing-out paper print, 1911
NPG Ax160800
by Ray Strachey
gelatin printing-out paper print, 1911
NPG Ax160801
by Ray Strachey
bromide print, circa 1911
NPG Ax160940
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1912
NPG Ax160806
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1912
NPG Ax160807
by Ray Strachey
film negative, August 1914
NPG x88543
Oliver Strachey; Karin Stephen; G.E. Moore
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1914
NPG x88547
Oliver Strachey; G.E. Moore; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1914
NPG x88548
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1914
NPG x88557
Barbara Strachey; Oliver Strachey
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, August 1914
NPG x88558
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1914
NPG Ax160808
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1914
NPG Ax160949
Oliver Strachey; G.E. Moore; John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
by Ray Strachey
gelatin silver print, 1914
NPG Ax160965
by Ray Strachey
gelatin silver print, 1914
NPG Ax160966
Oliver Strachey; Karin Stephen
by Ray Strachey
gelatin silver print, 1914
NPG Ax160967
by Ray Strachey
gelatin silver print, August 1914
NPG Ax160968
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey; Barbara Strachey
by Ray Strachey
bromide snapshot print, 1916
NPG x129605
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, Summer 1916
NPG x88553
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, Summer 1916
NPG x88555
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, Summer 1916
NPG x88556
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey; Barbara Strachey
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, Summer 1916
NPG x88559
by Ray Strachey, and by Oliver Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1916
NPG Ax161224
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey; Barbara Strachey
by Ray Strachey
bromide print, Summer 1916
NPG Ax160833
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1916
NPG Ax160938
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1916
NPG Ax160939
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax160950
Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles); Oliver Strachey
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax160969
Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles)
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax160970
Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1918
NPG Ax160971
by Ray Strachey
film negative, 1921
NPG x88545
Philippa Strachey; Joan Pernel Strachey
by Ray Strachey
film negative, 1921
NPG x88546
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1921
NPG x88550
Christopher Strachey; Pippa Strachey; (Joan) Pernel Strachey; and 2 other children
by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1921
NPG x88551
Pippa Strachey; (Joan) Pernel Strachey
by Ray Strachey
bromide print, 1921
NPG Ax160927
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1921
NPG Ax160941
by Ray Strachey
film negative, 1923
NPG x88544
by Ray Strachey
4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch negative, probably 1923
NPG x88549
by Ray Strachey
bromide print, 1923
NPG Ax160928
by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1923
NPG Ax160943
Related People
- Mary Berenson (née Smith) (mother)
- Benjamin Francis Conn ('Frank') Costelloe (father)
- Mary Conn Costelloe (grandmother)
- (Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen) (niece)
- Roger Hultin (grandson)
- Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (aunt)
- Hannah Tatum Smith (née Whitall) (grandmother)
- (Lloyd) Logan Pearsall Smith (uncle)
- Robert Pearsall Smith (grandfather)
- Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (daughter)
- Christopher Strachey (son)
- Oliver Strachey (husband)
- Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen) (niece)
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