Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet (29 March 1787 – 22 July 1871) was a British politician and

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Background

Born in

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, he was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Anne Hoare, daughter of Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet. The Aclands were an old

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family and successive generations of the family sat in the

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for the county. His family had extensive properties on what is now the Holnicote Estate and particularly the village of

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. In 1794, he succeeded his father as baronet. Acland was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford and graduated with a

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in 1808, and a

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in 1814. He gained a Doctor of Civil Laws degree in 1831.

Career

He was appointed

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for 1809–10. Although the Aclands were usually associated with the

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, this Acland was a

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. He was the

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(MP) for

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from 1812 to 1818 and again from 1820 to 1831. He then sat for North Devon from 1837 to 1857. Among his many business interests Acland was the owner of a schooner called ''

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in Australia, which had been founded in 1835. As a result of that visit, the suburb of St Kilda was named after the ship, and Acland St, one of St Kilda's main commercial centres, was named after Acland.

Family

In 1808, he married Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, daughter of the banker Henry Hoare of Mitcham Grove, and had issue. * Lydia Dorothea Acland (d. 14 Mar 1858) * Agnes Lucy Acland (1822-23 May 1895) * Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th/11th Bt. (25 May 1809 – 29 May 1898) * Arthur Henry Dyke Acland (3 May 1811 – 19 Jun 1857) In 1852 he changed his name to Troyte as a condition of inheriting the Huntsham estate. * Lt. Charles Baldwin Dyke Acland (1812–1837) * Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Bt. (23 Aug 1815 – 16 Oct 1900) (New

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created) * Reverend Peter Leopold Dyke Acland (3 Jun 1819 – 24 Oct 1899) * John Barton Arundell Acland (25 Nov 1823 – 18 May 1904) * Dudley Reginald Dyke Acland (1828''England Deaths and Burials, 1538–1991''. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.–1837)

References

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External links

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