Background
ACLAND, Charles Thomas Dyke was born on July 16, 1842. Son of Right Honourable Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet. Succeeded father 1898.
ACLAND, Charles Thomas Dyke was born on July 16, 1842. Son of Right Honourable Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet. Succeeded father 1898.
Brad field; Eton; Christ Church, Oxford. 3rd class Classics, 1866. Master of Arts.
Lieutenant-Colonel late Devon Yeomanry Cavalry. Deputy Warden of the Stanneries. Barrister; Member of Parliament East Cornwall, 1882-1885.
North-east Cornwall, 1885-1892. Parliamentary Secretary to Board of Trade and Ecclesiastical Commissioner, 1886. County Alderman, Devon.
Chairman of Technical Education Committee of Devon County Council from its commencement, 1890 till 1910. Vice-President Bathand West of England and Southern Counties Agricultural Society, in which Society he has been for some years chairman, or acting-cliairman, of the Journal Committee, Experiments Committee, and Dairy Committee. Sheriff of Devon, 1903- 1904. 12th Baronet; cartulary-register 1644; Justice of the Peace, D.L., Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, etc.
Clubs: Athenaeum, Travellers’, Farmers’, Cobden; Devon and Exeter; Somersetshire, Taunton.
Spouse 1879, Gertrude, sis. of 1st Baron Waleran. Heir: lit. Honourable A. H. Dyke Acland.