Captain, 72nd and 53rd Regiments; Honorary Colonel ; Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Was D.L., J.P. for Sussex and late Captain of the 72nd and 53rd Foot, Lt-Col. and Hon. Col of the 2nd Vol. Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 1897-1902. Was from 1903 Hon. Col. 4th Battn Royal Sussex Regt. Resided at Danny Park, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.
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He died in February 1916 at age 42, from the effects of gas, while on active service.
Killed in Action, Boer War.
Colonel Sir William Robert Campion
Colonel Sir William Robert Campion (3 July 1870 – 2 January 1951) was Governor of Western Australia from 1924 to 1931. Born in England in 1870, he was educated at Eton and Oxford University, and was the Conservative MP for Lewes between 1910 and 1924, when he was knighted and given the governorship of Western Australia.
Lt-Col. 4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. 1915, Col. 1924, Ret. 1927. M.P. (Conservative) Sussex (Lewis divn.) 1910, (Conservative Unionist) 1918, (Conservative) 1922-24. D.L., J.P. (1904) Sussex. Governor of Western Australia 1924-1931. Director of Great Boulder Proprietary Gold Mines Ltd. Knight of the Order of St. John. Moved from the family home at Danny Park, Hurstpierpoint to The Ham, Hassocks.
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as Henry D Acland / Head / married / age 50 / occupation Bank manager / working at home / birthplace Oxford / living at Old Bank, Worcester Road, Great Malvern, with wife Margaret H Acland, 3 servants.
Report of wills and bequests in The Times, 30 June 1936, p. 21, reads: ACLAND, Mr. Henry Dyke, of Gyllyngvase, Falmouth (net personalty £25,744) .. .. Gross value £27,399.
as Henry Dyke Acland / Head / married / age 30 / occupation Bank Manager / birthplace Oxford St Mary Magdalen / living at 9 Bread Street, Stamford St Michael, with wife Margaret Hichens Acland, 2 servants.
From Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).
as Henry D Acland / Clerk / unmarried / age 20 / occupation Bankers Clerk / birthplace Oxford / living at 35 Fleet Street, London St Dunstan in the West, with 8 other banker's clerks. [Note: Address is next to Hoare's Bank at 37 Fleet Street.]
as Henry Dyke Ackland / Son / age 10 / occupation Scholar / birthplace St Mary Magdalen Oxford / living at 40, 41 and 42 Broad Street, Oxford St Mary Magdalen, with parents Henry W and Sarah Ackland, sister Sarah Angeline Ackland, brothers Robert Dyke, Reginald B Dyke, Francis E Dyke and Alfrey Dyke Ackland, 8 servants + governess.
as Henry D Acland / Son / age 5 months / birthplace Oxfordshire Oxford / living at 41 Broad Street, Oxford St Mary Magdalen, with parents Henry W and Sarah Acland, brother William A Acland, sister Sarah A Acland, scientific assistant T Victor Carns, 6 servants.
From Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, The Anne of Exeter Volume, p. 442 (ancestry.com).
From Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).
Date and place from Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).
Christened at St. Mary Magdalen's, Oxford. Date and place from Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).
Death notice in The Times, 6 April 1936, p. 1, reads: ACLAND.---On April 4, 1936, at Chy-an-Mor, Gyllyngvase, Falmouth, HENRY DYKE ACLAND, second son of the late Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, Bt., in his 86th year. Funeral Porthleven Church, Helston, to-morrow (Tuesday), at 11 a.m.
Second son of Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland and Sarah Cotton. From Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).1881 Census: Bank Manager, 9 Broad Street, Stamford St Michael, Lincoln
as Margaret H Acland / Head / married / age 51 / birthplace Camberwell / living at Old Bank, Worcester Road, Great Malvern, with husband Henry D Acland, 3 servants.
as Margaret Hichens Acland / Wife / married / age 31 / birthplace Middlesex Camberwell / living at 9 Bread Street, Stamford St Michael, with husband Henry Dyke Acland, 2 servants.
Date from Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).
Place from UK 1881 census.
Christened at St. Giles', Camberwell. From Visitation of England and Wales, vol. 6, p. 134 (ancestry.com).
Date from http://www.thepeerage.com/p3132.htm.
Death notice in The Times, 18 January 1939, p. 1, reads: ACLAND.---On Monday evening, Jan. 16, 1939, at Chyanmor, Falmouth, MARGARET HICHENS ACLAND, widow of Henry Dyke Acland, and eldest daughter of the late John Jope Rogers, of Penrose, aged 89. Funeral at St. Bartholomew's, Porthleven, Friday next, 11 a.m.
Daughter of John Jope Rogers of Treassowe and Penrose (1816-1880) and Maria Hichens (eldest daughter of William Hichens of The Grove, Camberwell).
Year 1879 from http://www.thepeerage.com/p3132.htm.
Year 1879 from http://www.thepeerage.com/p3132.htm.
England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983 (ancestry.com) gives: Name: Acland, Sarah Dyke / Record Type: Deaths / Age at death: 0 / Quarter: September / Year: 1879 / District: Stamford / County: Huntingdonshire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Rutland / Volume: 7a / Page: 182.
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Of Lewes, Sussex.