Background
Born in Queen Anne Street in London, he was the son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet and Mary Mordaunt.
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Thomas Acland
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Education
Dyke Acland was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1866 and a Master of Arts in 1868.
Career
In 1869 he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. In 1898 he succeeded to his father"s baronetcy. He served in the 1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1886, he was Church-estates Commissioner and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade.
Dyke Acland was a Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset and Devon and a Justice of Peace for Somerset and Devon. In 1903, he became High Sheriff of Devon.
In February 1917 he granted a 500-year lease of almost 8,000 acres of the picturesque and virtually pristine Holnicote Estate on Exmoor, "one of the most beautiful pieces of wild country to be found in England" to the National Trust, in order to preserve it from future development. This more than doubled the extent of the lands controlled by the National Trust, then only recently created.
The lease was converted into an outright gift 35 years later by his great-nephew Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (1906-1990), who also donated Killerton.
Membership
22nd United Kingdom Parliament. 23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Deputy Warden of the Stannaries and Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for East Cornwall from 1882 to 1885 and for Launceston from 1885 to 1892.
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Nationality
United Kingdom