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
oil on board, 1930s
NPG D244
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1930s
NPG D246
by Unknown artist
oil on board
NPG D248
by Unknown artist
oil on board
NPG D249
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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