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Dacre, Cumbria Dacre () is a small village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Lake District National Park in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, and historically in Cumberland. In the 2001 census, the parish, which includes Newbiggin and Stainton, h ...
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Dacre Castle Dacre Castle is a moated tower house in the village of Dacre, south-west of Penrith, Cumbria, England. It was constructed in the mid-14th century, probably by Margaret Multon, against the background of the threat of Scottish invasion and ra ...
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Dacre, North Yorkshire Dacre is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, it is 5 miles south of Pateley Bridge. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 658, increasing to 764 at the 2011 Census. The village is situat ...
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Dacre, New Zealand Dacre is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the Southland Plains between Invercargill and Edendale on State Highway 1. In Dacre, SH 1 is met by (Lorneville – Dacre Road), which runs west to Makarewa via Rakahou ...
, in the Southland Region * Dacre, Ontario, Canada


People

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Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. History The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Mult ...
, an English hereditary title *
Charlotte Dacre Charlotte Dacre (1771 or 1772 – 7 November 1825), born Charlotte King, was an English author of Gothic novels. Most references today are given as Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda" and later adopted a sec ...
(1782–1841), English author *
Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker Captain Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, (2 February 1885 – 2 February 1966), also known as Hew Stoker and commonly credited in films as H. G. Stoker or Dacre Stoker, was an Irish Royal Navy officer who commanded the Royal Australian Navy's ...
(1885–1966), Irish navy officer and actor who took Dacre Stoker as his stage name *
Hugh Trevor-Roper Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of ...
(1914–2003), historian who chose Baron Dacre as his title *
Paul Dacre Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British right-wing tabloid the ''Daily Mail''. He is also editor-in-chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Ma ...
(born 1948), editor of British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' *
Dacre Stoker Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American author, sportsman and filmmaker. Biography Stoker was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the great-grandnephew of Irish author Bram Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic novel ''Dra ...
(born 1958), Canadian-American author, sportsman, and filmmaker *
Dacre Montgomery Dacre Kayd Montgomery-Harvey (; born 22 November 1994) is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Billy Hargrove in the Netflix series ''Stranger Things'' (2017–2022), Jason Scott in the 2017 action film ''Power Rangers'', and Steve ...
(born 1994), Australian actor


Other uses

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Dacre knot The Dacre knot, a type of decorative unknot In the mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, not knot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots. Intuitively, the unknot is a closed loop of rope without a knot tied into it, unknotte ...
, a heraldic knot


See also

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Dacres Dacres is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Barrington Dacres (died 1806), Royal Navy captain *Desmond Adolphus Dacres, real name of Desmond Dekker (1941–2006), Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician * James Richard Dacres (Ro ...
, a surname * Dacor (disambiguation) {{disambig, geo, surname