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Dayrell may refer to: *Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), Brazilian juvenile writer *Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, (1912–2011), appointed His Highness the Rajah Muda of Sarawak on 25 August 1937 *Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (1876–1965), member of the family of White Rajahs who ruled Sarawak for a hundred years *Lillingstone Dayrell Lillingstone Dayrell is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in Aylesbury Vale, about three and a half miles north of Buckingham, eight miles west of Milton Keynes and five miles south of Towcester. Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey ...

Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant
Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (August 28, 1880 – June 20, 1970) was a Brazilian juvenile writer. When she was a teenager, she kept a diary, which describes life in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil which was then published in 1942. The diary was published under a pen name Helena Morley. When it was originally published it was in portuguese under the title '' Minha Vida de Menina''. The diary was then translated in to English by Elizabeth Bishop in 1957. Biography She was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil to an English father and a Brazilian mother. Her father worked as a diamond miner. The diary chronicles Brant's daily life, and covers her teenage years until 1895. In 1900 Brant married Augusto Mário Calderia Brant, they had five children together. Brant says that she published her diaries in order to act as a role model for younger females who may read the book. She wrote that the diary was a way to show young women what becoming an adult means, and in this way she ...
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Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke
Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke (10 December 1912 – 2 March 2011) was appointed the Rajah Muda of Sarawak (heir apparent; Malay: ''Yang Amat Mulia Tuan Rajah Muda Sarawak'') on 25 August 1937, by his uncle, Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, Vyner of Sarawak, the third and last of the ruling White Rajahs. Brooke was the son of Bertram Brooke, Bertram, Tuan Muda of Sarawak and Gladys Milton Palmer, daughter of Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet, and heir to part of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit fortune. Background Brooke grew up in Britain and was educated at Eton College; Trinity College, Cambridge; and the SOAS University of London, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. Throughout the 1930s he served the Sarawak civil service in various sectors, including the Land and Registry Department, and as a magistrate. He enlisted in the British Army as a private soldier in November 1941, during the Second World War, and from 1941 to 1944 served as a lieutenant in the Intell ...
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Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke
Captain Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, Tuan Muda of Sarawak (8 August 1876, in Kuching – 15 September 1965, in Weybridge, Surrey) was a member of the family of White Rajahs who ruled Sarawak for a hundred years. Life Brooke was the son of Charles, the second of these rajahs, and a brother of Vyner of Sarawak, the third and final ruler of that family. He was for some years heir presumptive to his brother, a claim he relinquished in favour of his son. He held the title of "Tuan Muda" (literally "Young Lord") and the style of "His Highness". Brooke was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was president of Cambridge University Boat Club and rowed in the Boat Race in 1900 and 1901, and he was a member of the Pitt Club. He went on to serve in the Royal Horse Artillery during the First World War and act as Special Commissioner from Sarawak to the UK. Brooke married Gladys Milton Palmer on 28 June 1904. She was the only child of Sir Walter Palmer, 1st ...
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