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Throughout his life Strutt refused all honours offered to him. Lady Rayleigh died in 1836. Strutt survived her by nine years and died in Bath in February 1845, aged 86.
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Joseph Strutt
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He served in the Army and achieved the rank of Colonel, and also sat as Member of Parliament for Okehampton from 1790 to 1826 and for Maldon from 1826 to 1830. His grandson John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, became a noted mathematician and physicist and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.
Membership
1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 3rd United Kingdom Parliament.
4th United Kingdom Parliament.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament.
7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
17th Parliament of Great Britain.
18th Parliament of Great Britain]
Strutt was the member of a family that had made their fortune from its milling business in Maldon and Chelmsford in Essex and which had acquired the estate of Terling Place in Terling, Essex.
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February 18, 1845 (aged 86) -
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United Kingdom