Nigel Strutt
Sir Nigel Edward Strutt DL TD (18 January 1916 – 28 January 2004) was the chairman of the Strutt & Parker (Farms) Ltd firm of agricultural property consultants, land agents and farm managers. He farmed 22,500 acres (91 km2) in Essex and Suffolk. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex from 1954, and High Sheriff of Essex in 1966. He was offered of a peerage but declined it, as had his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt.
Strutt was the youngest son of Captain Edward Jolliffe Strutt and his wife Amelie (née Devas). His grandfather, Hon. Edward Gerald Strutt, was the fifth son of John James Strutt, 2nd Baron Rayleigh, and younger brother of Nobel Prize-winning physicist, John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. His great-uncle was a founder member of the Order of Merit; his grandfather was an early Companion of Honour.
The Strutts can trace their ancestry to a miller from Essex who died in 1694. They became stalwart members of the shire gentry, and several members of the family sat in Parliament from the 18th century. Nigel's great-great-grandfather, Joseph Strutt, was an MP for 40 years and colonel of several regiments of Essex militia. He was offered a peerage, but suggested that the title be conferred on his wife instead, so Lady Charlotte Strutt became Baroness Rayleigh.
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