3-034-541 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Sir T. D. Acland, of Devon, 1871. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. O. J. Rejlander, of 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., of Killerton Park...His family is one of ancient respectability in Devonshire tracing its pedigree through twenty-three generations of unbroken descent from Hugh de Aden or de Accalen, who held lands at Accalen, in the parish of Landkey, Devon, as early as the middle of the twelfth century...At an early age young Acland was sent to Harrow, where he was three years junior to Lord Palmerston and Lord Ripon, and a year senior to the late Sir Robert Peel, to whom through life he was personally attached...In 1812 he entered Parliament, in the Tory interest, as one of the members for Devon...He retired for a time from Parliament in 1831. He was re-chosen, after the dissolution of July, 1837, as member for North Devon...and continued to enjoy his seat without interruption down to the year 1857, when he retired from public life. After that date he lived quietly at his country seat, near Exeter, occupying himself with agricultural improvements and the duties of a resident magistrate and landowner'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.