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Giles Lytton Strachey was born in Stowey House, Clapham Common, London, on 1 March 1880. The fourth son of Lt. Gen. Sir Richard Strachey and Lady Jane Maria Strachey, ten of whose thirteen children survived childhood, his family traced its ancestry back to William Shakespeare's day. Sir Richard Strachey, a member of the Royal Society, spent his career in India, where he became director of public works. An energetic administrator during his career in India, in his later years Sir Richard became a distant figure, studying maps and reading novels in his study, leaving domestic duties and the rearing of the children to his determined wife. As a younger child, Lytton was cared for largely by his mother, though a French governess assisted in monitoring his study of French literature. He played with his sisters almost exclusively, and his mother often dressed him as a girl.
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