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{{Short description|British Indian judge (1858-1901)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| name = Arthur Strachey
| caption =
| office = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Allahabad High Court|6th Chief Justice]] of [[Allahabad High Court]]
| term_start = 12 November 1898
| term_end = 14 May 1901
| predecessor = [[Louis Addin Kershaw]]
| successor = [[John Stanley (judge)|John Stanley]]
| appointer = [[Queen Victoria]]
| office1 = [[Judge]] of [[Bombay High Court]]
| term_start1 = 1895
| term_end1 = 11 November 1898
| appointer1 = [[Queen Victoria]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|1858|12|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1901|05|14|1858|12|5|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Simla]], [[British India]]
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| parents = [[John Strachey (civil servant)|John Strachey]] and Katherine Jane Batten
| alma_mater = [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]]
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'''Sir Arthur Strachey''' (5 December 1858 – 14 May 1901) was a British Indian judge and Chief Justice of [[Allahabad High Court]].

==Early life==
Strachey was born in [[Calcutta]], [[British India]] to Sir [[John Strachey (civil servant)|John Strachey]] and Katherine Jane Batten.<ref>''India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947''</ref><ref>''1871 England Census''</ref> He was educated at [[Uppingham]] and afterwards at [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]]. He graduated from [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] in 1880 with second class in the Law Tripos. He got the LL.B. degree and was called to the bar from the [[Inner Temple]] in 1883.<ref name="DNB12">{{cite DNB12 |wstitle= Strachey, John |volume= 3 |pages= 437-439 |last= Cotton |first= James Sutherland |author-link= James Sutherland Cotton|quote= see final para "Sir Arthur Strachey (1858–1901), second son of.....|short= 1}}</ref>

==Career==
Strachey returned to [[British India]] and started practice at Allahabad High Court at [[Allahabad]]. In 1892, he became public prosecutor and standing counsel to the Provincial Government. In 1895 Strachey became a judge of the [[Bombay High Court]]. He presided at the first trial for sedition case of [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]] in 1897.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1188602/|title=Emperor vs Bal Gangadhar Tilak|date=9 November 1916|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> On 12 November 1898, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court<ref>{{Cite web |date=1898-12-13 |title=Edinburgh Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/11049/page/1359 |page=1359 |issue=11049}}</ref> and knighted on 30 January 1899.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&q=Arthur+Strachey+justice&pg=RA1-PA404|title=The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time|last=Volume 1|first=William Arthur Shaw|year=1970|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=9780806304434|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref> He died on 14 May 1901 in [[Simla]] while still being chief justice of Allahabad High Court.<ref name="DNB12"/>

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