Edward Gerald Strutt

Edward Gerald Strutt CH (born 10 April 1854 in Witham, Essex, UK; died 8 March 1930 in Hatfield Peverel, Essex, UK) was a British agriculturist who played an important role in British food and agricultural planning during World War I, for which he received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1917. As well as running his family's estates, advising on agriculture, and serving on various government committees, he co-founded the surveyors and land agents Strutt & Parker.

He was the fifth son of John James Strutt, second Baron Rayleigh, born at the family estate, Terling Place, in Essex in 1854. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was then apprenticed to a firm of land agents, Rawlence and Squarey.

He married Maria Louisa Tufnell (1854–1938) in 1878 and they had had five sons (two of whom died in infancy) and three daughters. One of his grandsons is Sir Nigel Strutt.

He was the brother of physicist John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (co-discoverer of argon and discoverer of Rayleigh scattering) and uncle of physicist Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh.

In 1877 he cofounded the firm of Strutt & Parker, surveyors and land agents, with his childhood friend Charles Parker. Initially the firm acted as land agents for Guy's Hospital, London. He later became president of the Surveyors' Institute.

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