Thomas Dyke Acland 6th & 10th Baronet of Columb-John

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 6th and 10th Baronet Acland of Columb John (aka of Killerton House).

Born 29 March 1787 in London, eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 5th&9th Baronet (1752-94) and his wife Henrietta Anne *Hoare the daughter of Sir Richard Hoare 1st Baronet of Barn Elms.
[Hoar/Hoare was an ancient term/name that referred to that which is ancient, or grey or white with age such as the hair of the elderly, or to that which was aged in general, and was used to describe the frost or snow as being white like the hair of ancient ones]

Educated at Harrow and Christ Church at Oxford (matriculated 1805; BA 1808; MA 1814, Hon. DCL 1831).

Thomas was a Member of Parliament for Devon 1812-18, 1820-31 and for North Devon, 1837-57.

Thomas was a friend of John Scandrett Harford of Blaise Castle (a British banker, benefactor and abolitionist) and shared an interest in the rustic picturesque with him.

Thomas was also a keen yachtsman, and his schooner St. Kilda visited Melbourne (Australia) in 1842 after which the suburb of St. Kilda was named.

His portrait was painted a number of times; there are several at Killerton, and one by J. Ramsay hangs at Ugbrooke Park (Devon), and there is a statue by Edward Bowring Stephens at Exeter, 1861.

He insisted on the education of his sons combining the traditional classical curriculum with an apprenticeship in manual labour from the carpenters on the Killerton estate, and this early training resulted in his second son, Arthur, abandoning a career in medicine for work in the building trades.

Sir Thomas married on 7 April 1808 to Lydia Elizabeth, the only daughter of Henry Hoare of Mitcham Grove, and had issue [i.e. children]:

(1) Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1809-98), 7th & 11th Baronet Acland of Columb-John;
(2) Arthur Henry Dyke Acland (later Acland-Troyte) (1811-57), m. 1835, Frances, daughter of Robert Williams; became a clerk of works and stone-carver
(3) Lt. Charles Baldwin Dyke Acland, RN (1812-37); baptised 24 November 1812; died at sea off the west coast of Africa, unmarried and without issue, 1837;
(4) Lydia Dorothea Acland (1814-58), baptised 14 May 1814; died unmarried and without issue, 14 March 1858;
(5) Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland KCB FRS (1815-90), 1st bt. of Oxford, born 23 August 1815; educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford (MD); Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and hon. Physician to HRH The Prince of Wales; m. 1846 Sarah (d. 1898), eldest dau of William Cotton DCL, FRS of Walwood (Essex) and had issue 7 sons;
(6) Rev. Peter Leopold Dyke Acland (1819-99), rector of Broadclyst, m. 1st Julia (d. 1851), dau of Rev. Benjamin Barker, rector of Shipdham (Norfolk) and had issue; m. 2nd, 1872, Julie (dsp 1906), dau of Philip Wappner of Dusseldorf (Germany);
(9) Agnes Lucy Acland (1821-95), baptised 15 October 1821; m. 1848 Arthur Mills MP of Efford Down, Stratton (Cornwall) (d. 1898) and had issue; she died 23 May 1895.
(7) John Barton Arundell Acland MA, (1823-1904), barrister, m. 1860 Emily Weddell (d. 1905), dau of Rt. Rev. Henry John Chitty Harper, Bishop of Christchurch (New Zealand), and had issue;
(8) Dudley Reginald Dyke Acland (1828-37), baptised 6 February 1828; buried 7 August 1837 at Morden (Surrey).
He inherited Killerton House (Devon), Holnicote (Somerset) and Rackenford Manor (Devon) from his father in 1794. He extended and altered both houses and landscaped the grounds, as well as building picturesque cottages at Selworthy (Somerset). He sold Rackenford in 1811.
He died 22 July 1871, aged 84.

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