Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,717 pages of information and 247,131 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Alfred Dyke Acland

From Graces Guide

1858 Born in Oxford, son of Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, brother of William Allison Dyke Acland and Theodore Dyke Acland[1]

1877-9 Pupil at Maudslay, Sons and Field.

1879 At GWR works Swindon

1880-4 Apprenticed under Mr Wolfe Barry and Mr H. M. Brunel

1884 Resident engineer on Metropolitan District Railway

1884 of Vincent Sq, London; student member of I Mech E[2]

1899 A Major Dyke-Acland was an early participant in the Automobile Club

1902 Major Dyke Acland was a member of the Royal 1st Devon

1937 Death of Colonel Alfred Dyke Acland of Honiton[3]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1871 census
  2. Mechanical Engineer Records
  3. The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 23, 1937