American colonist and historian. He was a member of a party of colonists under Sir Thomas Gates, who were shipwrecked on the Bermudas in 1609. Strachey, with others of the party, reached Virginia the next year, and, having received the appointment of secretary of the colony, wrote A True Repertory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas. This was published in Purchas’s Pilgrims. He also published Lawes, Divine, Morall and Martiall (1612) and History of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, printed in 1818.
