DACRE, Thomas Brand, 20 Baron. b. The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts. 15 March 1774; barrister L.I. 25 June 1800; M.P. for Herts. 11 May 1807 to 3 Oct. 1819 when he succeeded his mother. d. The Hoo 21 March 1851.
DACRE, Barbarina Brand, Baroness (3 dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, who d. 27 Aug. 1816 aged 89). b. 9 May 1767; one of the most accomplished women of her time; an excellent amateur painter and sculptor; Ugo Foscolo dedicated to her his Essays on Petrarch 1823 the last 45 pages of which contain her translations from Petrarch; her tragedy in 5 acts entitled Ina was produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1815; privately printed Dramas, translations and occasional poems 2 vols. 1821; Translations from the Italian 1836; edited Recollections of a Chaperon 1833 and Tales of the peerage and the peasantry 1835, both by her only dau. Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan who d. 27 Jany. 1839 aged 42. (m. (1) Valentine Henry Wilmot of Farnborough, Hants. m. (2) 4 Dec. 1819 Thomas Brand, baron Dacre 1774–1851). d. 2 Chesterfield st. May Fair, London 17 May 1854. G.M. xlii, 296–97 (1854).
DACRE, Henry Otway Brand-Trevor, 21 Baron (brother of 20 Baron Dacre 1774–1851). b. 17 July 1777; ensign Coldstream guards 27 April 1793, lieut.-col. 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821; served in Flanders 1793–95; assumed additional name of Trevor 18 Nov. 1824; colonel 31 Foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815; succeeded 21 March 1851. d. Great Cumberland place, London 2 June 1853.
DACRES, James Richard (son of Vice admiral James Richard Dacres 1749–1810). b. Lowestoft 22 Aug. 1788; entered navy 1796; captain 14 Jany. 1806; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 9 Aug. 1845 to 3 Aug. 1848; V.A. 20 March 1848. d. Catesfield lodge near Fareham, Hants. 3 Dec. 1853. bur. in family vault at Tetbury, Gloucs.
DACRES, Sir Richard James (son of Vice admiral Sir Richard Dacres 1761–1837). b. 1799; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817, lieut.-col. 23 Feb. 1852; served in Crimean war 1854–5; col. commandant 28 July 1864; commandant at Woolwich, May 1859 to 1865; general 2 Feb. 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; constable of Tower of London 2 July 1881 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Palmeira sq. Brighton 6 Dec. 1886. I.L.N. lxxix, 181 (1881), portrait.
DACRES, Sir Sidney Colpoys (brother of the preceding). b. Totnes, Devon 9 Jany. 1805; entered navy 8 Feb. 1817; captain 1 Aug. 1840; captain of the Sans Pareil 70 guns, 3 June 1852 to Nov. 1855; embarked the sick and wounded after battles of Alma and Inkerman; took charge of the port of Balaklava 27 Oct. 1854; superintendent of packet service at Southampton, Feb. to July 1856; superintendent of Royal Clarence victualling yard and Royal hospital, Haslar 7 July 1856 to 25 June 1858; granted good service pension 7 Feb. 1856; captain of the fleet in Mediterranean 25 Aug. 1859, second in command Dec. 1861 to April 1863; commanded channel fleet April 1863 to 17 Nov. 1865; a lord of the admiralty July 1865, first sea lord Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1872; admiral 1 April 1870; visitor and governor of Greenwich hospital 30 Nov. 1872 to death; K.L.H. 1828, K.T.S. 1865; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 47 Brunswick sq. Brighton 8 March 1884. I.L.N. lxii, 319, 321 (1873), portrait.
D’AETH, George William (only son of Wm. Hughes of Betshanger, Kent, who d. April 1786). b. April 1786; entered navy June 1799; assumed name of D’Aeth 4 June 1808; captain 13 June 1815; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Knowlton court, Kent 28 April 1873.
DAFFORNE, James. Contributed to the Art Journal 1845 to death; wrote 7 books 1872–77 on the pictures by C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield, J. Phillip, Sir A. W. Callcott, Sir E. Landseer, W. Mulready and J. M. W. Turner; author of The pictorial table book 1873; The Albert memorial Hyde Park, its history and description 1877; The life and works of E. M. Ward, R.A. 1879. d. Brodrick road, Upper Tooting 8 June 1880.
DAFT, Thomas Barnabas. b. Birmingham 1816; an iron founder and manufacturer of metallic hot houses 1835; maker of philosophical apparatus 1839; manager of india rubber works of Charles Mackintosh and Co. at Manchester many years; took out 28 patents 1839–77; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1860. d. 95 Clapham road, London 4 Dec. 1878.
DAGLISH, Robert. b. 21 Dec. 1779; engineer to Lord Balcarres at Wigan 1804; manager of Orrell colliery near Wigan; projected Bolton and Leigh railway 1825 which has no embankments or cuttings but undulates with natural surface of the land; invented best form of parallel rail and pedestals which gained premium of £100 given by London and Birmingham railway 1834 for which there were 72 competitors, this invention was generally adopted; projector of and partner in St. Helen’s foundry; M.I.C.E. 30 March 1830. d. Orrell near Wigan 28 Dec. 1865. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 561–63 (1867).