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Strang was the son of a wine merchant in
Glasgow. He received a liberal education, and his studies particularly included French and German. When he was fourteen his father died, and in due course he inherited the business, for which he had little interest. In 1817 he spent some time in France and
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Glasgow, and he prepared for the corporation elaborate and accurate reports on the "Vital Statistics of Glasgow", and on the census of the city as shown in 1841, 1851, and 1861. He wrote the article "Glasgow" for the eighth edition of the
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Chamberlain of Glasgow, and he held the office for thirty years. He regulated the finances of the city, and helped to improve its architectural features. He read before the
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Italy, which gave him a liking for continental travel. When at home, he began to contribute to periodicals tales and poems translated from French and German. His youthful translations from the German of
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Having artistic as well as literary tastes, Strang sketched some of the outstanding features of Old
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and others, were collected into a volume, and this introduced him to men of letters in London and in France and
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a series of letters from "an invalid in search of health". He died in
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appeared, the preface to which Strang wrote ten days before his death.
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conferred on him in 1843 the honorary degree of LL.D.
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