Richard Strutt

STRUTT, (Hon.) Richard. b. Terling, near Witham, Essex, 29 February 1848; d. Bath, 14 October 1927. He was the son of the 2nd Baron Rayleigh, and the younger brother of Lord Rayleigh, the distinguished physicist (Nobel Prize-winner and Chancellor of Cambridge University). He was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford (MA 1876). He worked for an American bank in London and later as a stockbroker. He was churchwarden and choirmaster at St John’s Church, Wilton Road, Chelsea, for over thirty years. He was a Fellow of the Philharmonic, Horticultural and Zoological Societies, and a member of the Church Music Society, the Gregorian Association, and the London Society of...