Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet
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Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet (29 March 1787 – 22 July 1871), British politician, was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet. The Aclands were an old Devonshire family and successive generations of the family sat in the House of Commons for the county. He was educated at Oxford University where he gained a Doctor of Civil Laws degree. Although the Aclands were usually associated with the Liberal Party, this Acland was a Conservative. He sat for Devonshire from 1812 to 1818 and again from 1820 to 1831. He then sat for North Devon from 1837 to 1857.
His family had extensive properties on what is now the Holnicote Estate and particularly the village of Selworthy.
Among his many business interests Acland was the owner of a schooner called The Lady of St Kilda, which he bought in 1834. In 1842 the schooner visited the township of Melbourne in Australia, which had been founded in 1835. As a result of that visit, the suburb of St Kilda was named for the ship, and Acland St, one of St Kilda's main commercial centres, was named after Acland.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Lawrence Palk and John Pollexfen Bastard |
Member of Parliament for Devonshire 1812–1818 (with John Pollexfen Bastard, to 1816; Edmund Pollexfen Bastard from 1816) |
Succeeded by Edmund Pollexfen Bastard and Hugh Fortescue |
| Preceded by Hugh Fortescue and Edmund Pollexfen Bastard |
Member of Parliament for Devonshire 1820–1831 (with Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, to 1830; Lord John Russell) |
Succeeded by Hugh Fortescue and Lord John Russell |
| Preceded by Newton Fellowes and Hugh Fortescue |
Member of Parliament for North Devon 1832–1857 (with Hugh Fortescue, to 1837; Lewis Buck, from 1837) |
Succeeded by James Wentworth Buller and Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis |
| Baronetage of England | ||
| Preceded by Thomas Dyke Acland |
Baronet (of Columb John, Devonshire) 1794–1871 |
Succeeded by Thomas Dyke Acland |
