Editing Christopher Strachey (section)

==Early life and education==
Christopher Strachey was born on 16 November 1916 to [[Oliver Strachey]] and [[Ray Strachey|Rachel (Ray) Costelloe]] in [[Hampstead]], England. Oliver Strachey was the son of [[Richard Strachey]] and the great-grandson of [[Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet]]. His elder sister was the writer [[Barbara Strachey]]. In 1919, the family moved to 51 [[Gordon Square]]. The Stracheys belonged to the [[Bloomsbury Group]] whose members included [[Virginia Woolf]], [[John Maynard Keynes]] and Strachey's uncle [[Lytton Strachey]]. At 13, Strachey went to [[Gresham's School]], [[Holt, Norfolk|Holt]] where he showed signs of brilliance but in general performed poorly. He was admitted to [[King's College, Cambridge]] (the same college as [[Alan Turing]]) in 1935 where he continued to neglect his studies. Strachey studied [[mathematics]] and then transferred to [[physics]]. At the end of his third year at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], Strachey suffered a nervous breakdown, possibly related to coming to terms with his homosexuality. He returned to Cambridge but managed only a "lower second" in the [[Natural Sciences Tripos]].<ref name="Campbell">{{cite journal | first=M. | last=Campbell-Kelly | title=Christopher Strachey, 1916–1975: A Biographical Note | journal=[[IEEE Annals of the History of Computing]] | volume=7 | issue=1 | pages=21 | date=January 1985 | doi=10.1109/mahc.1985.10001| s2cid=17188378 }}</ref>