Sir Charles Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet
DL,
JP (16 July 1842 – 18 February 1919) was a
British politician and
Barrister-at-Law.
Born in
Queen Anne Street in
London, he was the son of
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet and Mary Mordaunt. 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. The following year, he was
called to the Bar by the
Inner Temple. In 1898, he succeeded to his father's
baronetcy.
Dyke Acland served in the
1st Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, reaching the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel. He was
Deputy Warden of the Stannaries and
Member of Parliament (MP) for
East Cornwall from 1882 to 1885 and for
Launceston from 1885 to 1892. 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.
On 1 November 1879, he married Gertrude Walrond, daughter of
Sir John Walrond Walrond, 1st Baronet in
All Saints' Chapel in
Uffculme. He died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother
Arthur Dyke Acland.