page_title: Thomas P Stratten
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas P Stratten / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of the Johannesburg General Hospital from the Westcliff hotel
context_page_description: Thomas Price Stratten was a South African engineer. He went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, followed by two years at American General Electric. He returned to South Africa in 1929 to the position of assistant electrical engineer at De Beers Consolidated Mines. He took senior positions at Iscor, the Union Corporation and Escom. After a time spent in the Directorate of War Supplies, he went on to successfully expand SAPPI's operations and was president of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers during the 1940s.
context_section_description: Stratten married Mary Adele Morris in 1930 and they had three children, Peter, Thomas and Mary. He was a member of the Rand Club, The Johannesburg Country Club and The Royal Johannesburg Golf club and had a home in Westcliff, Johannesburg.
caption: View to the north from the Westcliff hotel
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