Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet (May 13, 1939 – September 26, 2009), was the son of Sir Richard Acland, 15th Baronet and Anne Stella Alford.

John Acland attended the Dragon School

Dragon School

The Dragon School is a British coeducational, preparatory school in the city of Oxford, founded in 1877 as the Oxford Preparatory School, or OPS. It is primarily known as a boarding school, although it also takes day pupils...

 in Oxford

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, Clifton College

Clifton College

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, Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College, Cambridge

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, and the University of Wisconsin.

Acland married Virginia Forge, daughter of Roland Forge, on 9 September 1961. His children were Dominic Dyke Acland (born 1962), Dr Piers Dyke Acland (born 1965), and Holly Dyke Acland (born 1972). He succeeded his father as baronet

Baronet

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 on the latter's death on 24 November 1990.

Acland died on September 26, 2009 a day after being involved in a car accident near Bedford

Bedford

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, England

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Sources

• Acland, Sir John (Dyke), Who's Who
  Who's Who (UK)
  Who's Who is an annual British publication of biographies which vary in length of about 30,000 living notable Britons.-History:...
  
   2008, A & C Black
  A & C Black
  A & C Black is a British book publishing company.The firm was founded in 1807 by Adam and Charles Black in Edinburgh, and moved to the Soho district of London in 1889. In 1851, the firm bought the copyright of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels for £27,000. In 1902 it published P. G...
  
  , 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
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  , December 2007.
• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, edited by Charles Mosley, Wilmington, Delaware, 2003, vol I, pp. 28–31., ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.

External links

• Entry on The Peerage.com website