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Sir Charles William Strickland, 8th Baronet (6 February 1819 – 31 December 1909) was an English barrister and a rower who was in the winning crew in the first Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. He was President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
Strickland married Georgina Selina Septima Milner, daughter of Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner, Bt on 19 September 1850 and they had a son Walter. He married secondly on 22 May 1866, Anne Elizabeth Nevile, daughter of Rev. Christopher Nevile, of Thorney, Nottinghamshire. They had a son Henry and a daughter. He had two brothers, one of whom Frederick Strickland was a friend of Francis Galton and died in tragic circumstances according to Galton's description.
Strickland was on the Northern Circuit and was chairman of the East Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy and to Boynton Hall on 23 December 1874. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1880.[1] |