Уолтер Стрикленд, 9 -й баронет

Уолтер Уильям Стрикленд, де Юре 9 -й баронет (26 мая 1851 - 9 августа 1938 г.) был английским переводчиком и радикалом. Он стал известен как « анархистский баронет », потому что он бродил по всему миру на протяжении большей части своей жизни, поддерживая радикальные причины. Получив чехословацкое гражданство в 1923 году, он отказался от своего британского гражданства, а затем переехал на Яву .

Биография

Стрикленд родился в Вестминстере , в то время как семейное поместье находилось в Хильденли Холле недалеко от Малтона, штат Северный Йоркшир . Он получил образование в Эдинбургской академии и Тринити -колледже, Кембридж . Он был старшим сыном сэра Чарльза Стрикленда, 8 -го баронета (1819–1909), единственного ребенка его первого брака с Джорджиной, дочерью сэра Уильяма Милнера, 4 -го баронета , но никогда не использовал титул, который он унаследовал после смерти своего отца.

В 1888 году он женился на Элизе Вокс (1860–1946). Полиглот бегл на древних и современных языках, он написал несколько книг и брошюр и переведенные произведения чешского поэта Вит -Зслав Хэлек , а также Мольер и Гораций .

Он был связан с рукописью Вунича . Возможно, он встретил Уилфрида Войнича в течение его первых лет в Лондоне, когда Войнич был непосредственно вовлечен в политическую деятельность российских беженцев в Лондоне под руководством Сергея Степняка-Кравинского , который основал SFRF ( Общество друзей Русской свободы ) и и и и и и и и RFPF (российский фонд свободной прессы).

In the early 1890s, Strickland went to live abroad. In 1911, he sold the family home, which became a convent. After 1912, he did not live in England. Strickland spent some time in Russia and in 1923 became a citizen of Czechoslovakia, formally renouncing his British citizenship and that he would not be using the title. (There is no mechanism for a baronet to renounce the title, although it is possible to cease using it during his lifetime.) Strickland died in Batavia, Netherlands on 9 August 1938.

Political beliefs

Strickland had libertarian, socialist (Bohemian) and atheist ideas. His anti-British and anti-imperialist activities were widely reported in the English-speaking press, particularly The Times and Daily Express, making him somewhat of a celebrity, while his wandering led him to be dubbed a "gypsy."

Strickland believed he was the subject of assassination plots by the British. In a letter to a London newspaper, he wrote, "The vulgar, ungentlemanly, and, indeed, murderous persecution to which I have been subjected is exclusively British." According to British intelligence, Strickland was thought to be of "doubtful sanity."

In 1909, Guy Aldred, founder of the Glasgow Anarchist Group, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour for printing the August issue of The Indian Sociologist, an Indian nationalist newspaper edited by Shyamji Krishnavarma. Strickland heard of Aldred's action and sent him a telegram of congratulations at the prison and a cheque for £10. Several of his writings were published in The Indian Sociologist between 1911 and 1914.

As related by Albert Meltzer:

"After the publication of Hyde Park in 1938 support for Aldred in London fell off and he had burned his bridges in London and Glasgow, but then an extraordinary chance ended his days of poverty. Sir Walter Strickland, a millionaire whose family practically owned Malta, had during the First World War taken to him and was disgusted with the British Government after the Versailles Treaty. In acknowledgment of the newly created State of Czechoslovakia, the first fruits of League of Nations liberal idealism, Strickland became naturalised Czech (1923), though he never went to that country. In 1938 Strickland died and left a fortune to Aldred, who promptly formed the Strickland Press, bought a hall, bookshop and machinery and proceeded reprinting all his old pamphlets, before actually getting the money. Then the Strickland relatives brought a suit saying the will was invalid. Strickland had said in his will he left the money to Aldred "for socialist and atheist propaganda", illegal under Czech law. There was a complicated legal case which ended as such things usually do, with the money in the hands of the lawyers. Aldred, used to defending his own cases personally and handling courts with ease on matters of obstruction and sedition, found himself outgunned among the moneyed lawyers."

Внешние ссылки

• Работает по Уолтеру Уильяму Стрикленду или о Walter William Strickland в Wikisource
• СМИ, связанные с Уолтером Уильямом Стриклендом в Wikimedia Commons