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It was created in 1954 for the prominent diplomat Sir William Strang, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1949 to 1953.
He was elected an associate in 1880, the last engraver made associate until the election of Frank Short and William Strang in 1906, and retired from active membership in 1892.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Strang's own Allegory of Death and The Plowman's Wife, have served him with suitable imaginative subjects.
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He painted a decorative series of scenes from the story of Adam and Eve for the library of a Wolverhampton landowner named Hodson; they were exhibited at the Whitechapel exhibition in 1910.
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He was one of the original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was a part of their first exhibition in 1881.