Sir Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland (18 May 1856 – 18 February 1924) was a British barrister and judge.

Background

He was the sixth son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Baronet, and his wife Sarah Cotton, eldest daughter of William Cotton. His younger brother was

Alfred Dyke Acland Colonel Alfred Dyke Acland CBE JP (19 August 1858 – 22 March 1937) was a distinguished British Army officer. The son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland by his marriage to Sarah Cotton, Acland was educated at Temple Grove School and Charterhouse ...

. He was educated at

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and then at

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, where he graduated with a

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in 1878 and

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five year later.

Career

In 1881, Acland was called to the bar by the

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and worked as barrister-at-law. He became junior counsel to the

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in 1897 and subsequently was appointed

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in 1904. Acland was appointed Recorder of Shrewsbury in November 1901, a post he held for the next two years. He then served as Recorder of Oxford until his death in 1924. He was nominated a

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in 1904 and acted as counsel for Great Britain at the

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in Paris in the following year. In 1913, he was elected a member of the Royal Commission for Legal Delay and became a

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. A year later, he was created a

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. Acland sat in the

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and was treasurer of the Barristers' Benevolent Association. He was

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for

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and chaired the London Hospital Saturday Fund.

Family

On 12 August 1885, Acland married Helen Emma Fox, daughter of Reverend Thomas Fox, and had by her four children, two sons and two daughters. The family lived at Thirtover in the village of

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, West Berkshire, where the Acland Memorial Hall was built on land donated to the village by the Acland family.

Works

References

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