Sir Charles Strickland, 8th Baronet
Sir Charles William Strickland, 8th Baronet (6 February 1819 – 31 December 1909) was an English barrister and rower who helped win the first Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1839. He was President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and was born and died at Hildenley Hall, near Malton, Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet, of Boynton.
He went to Rugby School and is thought to have inspired the character 'Martin' in Tom Brown's Schooldays. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1837 and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1841. Strickland married Georgina Selina Septima Milner in 1850; they had a son, Walter. He married again in 1866 to Anne Elizabeth Nevile; they had a son, Henry, and a daughter. He had two brothers, including Frederick Strickland, a friend of Francis Galton who died in a tragic way according to Galton.
He rowed for Trinity College in the 1839 Henley winning crew. Strickland was called to the bar in 1847 and joined the Middle Temple in 1849. He worked on the Northern Circuit and was chairman of the East Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions. He became the 8th Baronet and inherited Boynton Hall in 1874, and he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1880.
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