Chris Acland was an English

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 musician

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, best known for being the drummer

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 of the London

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 based shoegazing

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 and britpop

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 musical ensemble

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, Lush

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.

Biography

Christopher John Dyke Acland was born in Lancaster

Lancaster, Lancashire

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 Infirmary. He played in a number of other bands before Lush, including The Infection and Panic.

In 1988, Acland became a founding member of Lush, along with Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson

Emma Anderson

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, Meriel Barham and Miki Berenyi

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. After personnel changes gave way to a stable line-up, Lush released their debut EP, Scar, and developed a following as a live act. They would go on to release three album

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s and several single

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s and EP

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s and achieve critical success.

Acland was a fan

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 of football

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 and a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

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.

On 17 October 1996, after Lush had completed their tour and music festival

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 appearances, and two days after bandmate Anderson announced a desire to quit the band, Acland committed suicide

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 by hanging

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 himself in his parents' house in Burneside

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, Cumbria

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. His bandmates in Lush were devastated and disbanded after a period of mourning.

Burke's Peerage

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 & Baronetage 104th Edition notes that he was the son of Oliver Geoffrey Dyke Acland and Judith Veronica Williams. He was the great-grandson of Sir Francis Dyke Acland, the 14th Baronet Acland.