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Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet ( 1731 – 16 January 1798) of

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, was a British soldier and colonial administrator.

Origins

Dalling was the son of John Dalling (1697–1744), of Bungay in Suffolk, by his wife Catherine Windham (d.1738), daughter (and in her issue eventual heiress) of Colonel William Windham (1673–1730), MP, of

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in Norfolk (which estate he bought in about 1720 with

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profits). Colonel Windham was the second son of William Windham of

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in Norfolk, and was a first cousin of

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, both being grandsons of Sir Joseph Ashe, 1st Baronet. In 1810, on the death of Joseph Windham (1739–1810) of Earsham (Colonel Windham's grandson), Dalling's eldest surviving son inherited that estate.

Career

He served under

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with the British army which fought in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1758 and which captured Quebec from the French in the

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in 1759. Dalling was Governor of Jamaica from 1777 to 1782 and Commander-in-Chief of the

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( Fort St. George), from 1784 to 1786. He was made Colonel of the 60th Foot in 1776 and having been promoted to

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in 1782, he became Colonel of the 37th Foot in 1783. Promoted to full general in 1796, he was created a

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"of Burwood in the County of Surrey" on 11 March 1783.

Marriages and issue

Dalling married twice: *Firstly, to Elizabeth Pinnock (1747-6 July 1768), a daughter of Philip Pinnock (born 1720), of the Parish of St. Andrew in Jamaica, Speaker of the Jamaican House of Assembly in Kingston, by his wife Grace Dawkins / Dakins (1729-14.8.1771). Philip Pinnock's grandfather was a Quaker from

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in Berkshire, England, who had emigrated to Barbados before 1658. Elizabeth died on 6 July 1768, having had an only daughter: **Elizabeth Windham Dalling (1763–1.5.1768), who died aged 5. *Secondly, in 1770, he married Louisa Lawford (died 1824), a daughter of Excelles Lawford, of

in Surrey, by whom he had issue including: **Lieutenant John Windham Dalling (c.1769-1786), eldest son and

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, who died aged 17 at Madras, India, whose mural monument survives in Earsham Church, Norfolk, and whose portrait survives, painted by Philip Reinagle (1749-1833). **Charles Lawford Dalling (1772-16 April 1789), second son, who died aged 17, also remembered on the mural monument with his elder brother in Earsham Church. **Sir William Windham Dalling, 2nd Baronet (1774–1864), of Earsham and 17 Lower Berkeley Street, Westminster, 3rd but eldest surviving son and heir, who served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1819. He was awarded compensation as owner of the Donnington Castle sugar estate, in the Parish of St Mary, Jamaica, which in the 1830s had produced an annual income of £5,000 to £6,000. In 1810, on the death of Joseph Windham (1739–1810) of Earsham (Colonel Windham's grandson), he inherited the Earsham estate. **Captain John Windham Dalling (1789–1853), Royal Navy. **Anne Louise Dalling (1785-1853), who in 1808 married General the Hon. Robert Meade, of

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and

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, younger son of John Meade, 1st Earl of Clanwilliam and his wife Theodosia Magill.

Dalling's Vizagaptam Cabinets

''The Dalling Cabinets'', sold at Christie's in London in 2005 for £78,000 a pair of Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam ivory bureau cabinets, made circa 1786, on ebonised and parcel gilt stands, c1810, were made for Dalling near Madras and brought home to Britain. Each is inlaid overall with panels depicting buildings, trees and flowers, surrounded by borders of scrolling foliage, with triangular open pediment above a frieze drawer and three pigeon-holes and three drawers flanked by doors enclosing two pigeon-holes and three drawers, above a hinged flap enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers divided by column-drawers, above a long drawer fitted with divisions, on bracket feet, the interior and carcase in satinwood, on a rounded rectangular stand with solid three-quarter gallery above a reeded frieze, on spirally-fluted tapering legs and ring-turned tapering feet, minor variations in size and decoration, the pediment now positioned at the rear edge. These engraved bureau-cabinets, serving as portable desk jewel-case and dressing-box, are designed as a miniature 'desk and bookcase' with Roman-temple pediment. Engraved tablets, wreathed by floral 'chintz' fashioned borders, portray magnificent villa landscapes. This artistic India-flowered furniture, crafted in ivory veneer, was retailed in Madras and Calcutta by the English and Dutch East India Companies; but it was primarily manufactured in Vizagapatam, on the northern

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. Two other related cabinets, from the estate of Alexander Wynch, a former East India Company Governor of Fort St. George, were acquired in the 1770s by George III.(RCIN 4695), sold by Queen Charlotte, 7 May 1819, as lots 106 and 109. Purchased by the Prince Regent for £26.15.6 and £28.7, respectively, and sent to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. They measure: (overall) 57¼ inches high; 26½ inches wide; and 13½ inches deep. The cabinets are 36¾ inches high; 25 inches wide; and 11¾ inches deep. The English stands are 20½ inches high.

References

*'' The Complete Baronetage'', G.E.C., volume five, page 231. * , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Dalling, John 1798 deaths 1730s births Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain British Army generals Governors of Jamaica Royal American Regiment officers 37th Regiment of Foot officers People from Bungay British Army personnel of the French and Indian War Military personnel from Suffolk Military personnel from Surrey