DALGLISH, Robert (son of Robert Dalglish, provost of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1808; a calico printer at Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Lennox-mill cottage, Lennoxtown near Glasgow 20 June 1880.
DALHOUSIE, James Andrew Brown-Ramsay, 1 Marquis of (youngest child of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838). b. Dalhousie castle, co. Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838; P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843, pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland 12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848, left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852, Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849; constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13 Jany. 1853. d. Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. Sir C. Jackson’s Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 98–104; I.L.N. xiv, 36 (1849), portrait, xxii, 61 (1853), portrait.
DALHOUSIE, Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Baron Panmure 1771–1852). b. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 22 April 1801; ed. at the Charterhouse; ensign 79 foot 3 June 1819, captain 31 Oct. 1826, sold out 1831; M.P. for Perthshire 1835–37, for Elgin district of burghs 1838–41, for Perth 1841–52; under sec. of state for home department 18 April 1835 to 15 June 1841; vice pres. of board of trade 28 June to 3 Sep. 1841; P.C. 28 June 1841; sec. of state for war 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852 and 8 Feb. 1855 to Feb. 1858; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1842; lord lieut. of Forfarshire 16 June 1849; keeper of privy seal of Scotland 25 May 1853; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; G.C.B. 29 Oct. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron Panmure 13 April 1852 and as 11 Earl of Dalhousie 19 Dec. 1860. d. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 6 July 1874. The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; Illust. news of the world, i, (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xvi, 245 (1850), portrait, xxvi, 152 (1855), portrait, lxv, 61, 67, 115, 523 (1871), portrait.
DALHOUSIE, George Maule-Ramsay, 12 Earl of (2 son of hon. John Ramsay 1775–1842, col. of 79 foot). b. 26 April 1806; entered navy Dec. 1820; captain 20 March 1843; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 27 July 1857 to 1 Sep. 1862; commander in chief on South American station 7 May 1866 to 17 March 1869; succeeded as 12 Earl 6 July 1874; created Baron Ramsay of Glenmark, co. Forfar in peerage of the U.K. 12 June 1875; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Dalhousie castle 20 July 1880.
DALHOUSIE, John William Ramsay, 13 Earl of (son of the preceding). b. 29 Jany. 1847; naval cadet Jany. 1861; commander 4 March 1874, commanded the Britannia 1877–79, retired 26 July 1884; contested Liverpool 6 Feb. 1880; M.P. for Liverpool, March 1880 to 20 July 1880 when he succeeded his father; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Sep. 1880 to June 1885; K.T. Nov. 1881; P.C. 3 April 1886; sec. of state for Scotland 5 April 1886 to 26 June 1886. d. Havre 25 Nov. 1887. bur. parish church of Cockpen, co. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1887. London Figaro 3 Dec. 1887 p. 5, col. 2, portrait.
DALLAS, Rev. Alexander Robert Charles (2 son of Robert Charles Dallas, miscellaneous writer 1754–1824). b. Colchester 29 March 1791; clerk in commissariat office of Treasury 1805–10, deputy assistant commissary general 5 June 1810 to 1 July 1814 when placed on h.p., retired 1820; gentleman commoner of Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Feb. 1820; C. of Radley, Berks. 17 June 1821, of Highclere Hants. 1821, of Woburn 1824, of Burford, Oxon. 1826; V. of Yardley, Herts. 22 Sep. 1827; R. of Wonston, Hants. 14 Sep. 1828 to death; chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1828 to death; founded Society for Irish church missions to the Roman Catholics 1848, hon. sec. 1848 to death; author of Cottager’s guide to the New Testament 6 vols. 1837–43; A Guide to the Acts of the Apostles by A. D. 1847; Revelation readings 3 vols. 1848 and upwards of 50 other books. d. in house of Mr. Annesley, Blackheath, Kent 12 Dec. 1869. bur. Wonston churchyard 17 Dec. Incidents in the life and ministry of Rev. A. R. C. Dallas by his widow (1871), portrait.
DALLAS, Charles. Ensign 32 foot 23 March 1815; governor of St. Helena 14 Feb. 1828 to 1836. d. Trefusis house, Exmouth 26 April 1855 in 88 year.
DALLAS, Elmslie William (2 son of Wm. Dallas of ‘Lloyds,’ London). b. London 27 June 1809; studied at the R.A. London 1831–34; painted a series of views of Scotland for garden pavilion at Buckingham palace; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; F.R.S. Edin. 1851; author of The Elements of plane practical geometry 1855. d. 26 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x, 340 (1880).
DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland (elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, physician). b. Jamaica 1828; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a journalist on the Times many years, special correspondent at Paris 1867 and 1870; contributed to Daily News, Saturday Review, Pall Mall Gazette and The World; edited Once a Week 1868; author of Poetics, an essay on poetry 1852; The gay science 2 vols. 1866; edited an abridgment of Richardson’s Clarissa Harlowe 1868; published Kettner’s Book of the table, a manual of cookery 1877 anon. (m. in Scotland, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 the well-known actress Isabella Glyn (widow of Edward Wills), marriage was dissolved in the divorce court, London on her petition 10 May 1874). d. 88 Newman st. Oxford st. London 17 Jany. 1879. I.L.N. 8 Feb. 1879 pp. 78, 129, 131, portrait; Law Journal Reports xlvi, pt. 1, pp. 51–3 (1876).
DALLIN, Thomas Francis (eld. son of Thomas James Dallin of Plumstead, Kent). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 10 June 1858 aged 17, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; student at L.I. 23 Nov. 1861; fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1864–71, tutor 1866; professor of rhetoric at Gresham college, London, Aug. 1875; public orator Univ. of Ox. 8 May 1877 to death; one of secs. of Oxford Univ. commission 1880 to death; author with J. Y. Sargent of Materials and models for Greek and Latin prose composition 1870, 2 ed. 1875; Materials for Greek prose composition 1878. d. Brighton 11 Nov. 1880. bur. in Holywell cemetery, Oxford 16 Nov. Times 13 Nov. 1880 p. 5, col. 6, 15 Nov. p. 9, col. 4, 17 Nov. p. 9, col. 6.