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Anthony Blaxland Stransham

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General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham (d. October 1900, aged 95) led the Royal Marines during the First Opium War, winning the war and Hong Kong for the British Empire, when a young captain.

Later in his career, as a General and the Grand Old Man of the Army, Queen Victoria twice knighted the General Grand Commander of the Bath in the Order of the Bath. Stransham was the son of Lt. Col. Anthony Stransham of the Royal Marines and grandson of Major Samuel Stransham of the Royal Marines, who planted the British flag on the Falkland Islands, claiming that island for King George III.

See also:
  • The Stransham family; Stransham

  • The 'fighting Wilberforces' are one branch of descendants of the Stransham family.

  • Streynsham Master, the royal Governor in India before Elihu Yale, was a distant kinsman.

  • An Edward Stransham from Kent, who professed the Catholic faith, was blessed and named a martyr in the Catholic pantheon of saints.


Category:1900 deaths|Stransham, Anthony Blaxland
Category:Royal Marines officers|Stransham, Anthony Blaxland

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Last Modified:   2005-04-13


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