Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, FRS was a British educational reformer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 and 1886 initially as a Tory and later, after an eighteen-yea
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 11th Baronet
Thomas Dyke Acland (right) with his mother Lydia Elizabeth Hoare (centre) and Arthur Henry Dyke Acland (left). Mezzotint by Samuel Cousins, 1826.
Recollection of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet, at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter
John Acland (runholder)
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John Barton Arundel Acland, often referred to as J. B. A. Acland, was born in Devon, England, as the youngest child of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet. He followed his father's path of education
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet
…Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet and his wife Lydia Elizabeth Hoare. Among his siblings was prominent physician, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, and politician John Acland. His paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Acland, 9th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Anne Hoare (daughter of Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet). His…
Acland in 1893
Holnicote, the homestead at Mount Peel (1880s watercolour)
Standing from left: Lucy, Harriet and Emily; sitting: Bessie, JBA and Rosa (1890)
John and Emily Acland with (from left) Rosa, John and Bessie