Andrew Strahan

LC name authority rec. no96047651

LC heading: Strahan, Andrew, -1831

Andrew Strahan (1750–1831), born at 10 Little New Street, London, on 15 January 1750, inherited the businesses. He sold some properties, consolidated others, finally lost the law patent, but carried on a flourishing business and received renewal of the patent as king's printer. A member of parliament between 1796 and 1820, he retired from formal management of the businesses in 1819. Strahan was unmarried and after his death on 25 August 1831, at New Street, the business passed to the family of John Spottiswoode, who had married William Strahan's youngest daughter, Margaret Penelope. In the mid-nineteenth century the King's House became Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd, and the private business continued as Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd. Son of Wiliam Strahan (1715-1785)

(Patricia Hernlund, ‘Strahan, William (1715–1785)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2055/view/article/26631, accessed 21 Dec 2015]