Dacre may refer to:
Places
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Dacre, Cumbria
Dacre () is a small village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Lake District National Park in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, but historically in the traditional county of Cumberland. In the 2001 cen ...
, England
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Dacre Castle
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Dacre, North Yorkshire
Dacre is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, located 5 miles south of Pateley Bridge. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 658, increasing to 764 at the 2011 Census. The village is situated on the c ...
, England
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Dacre, New Zealand
Dacre is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the Southland Plains between Invercargill and Edendale on State Highway 1. In Dacre, SH 1 is met by (Lorneville – Dacre Road), which runs west to Makarewa via Raka ...
, in the Southland Region
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Dacre, Ontario, Canada
People
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Baron Dacre
Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by Hereditary peer#Writs of summons, writ.
History
The first creation came in 1321, when Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre, Ralph Dacre was Hereditary peer# ...
, an English hereditary title
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Charlotte Dacre
Charlotte Dacre (17?, born Charlotte King, was a British Gothic novelist, and poet. Most references today are given as Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda" and later adopted a second pseudonym to confuse her ...
(1782–1841), English author
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Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker
Captain Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre Stoker, (2 February 1885 – 2 February 1966), also known as Hew Stoker and commonly credited in films as H. G. Stoker or Dacre Stoker, was an Irish Royal Navy officer who commanded the Royal Australian Navy's s ...
(1885–1966), Irish navy officer and actor who took Dacre Stoker as his stage name
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford), Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
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(1914–2003), historian who chose Baron Dacre as his title
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Jane Dacre
Dame Jane Elizabeth Dacre, (born 11 November 1955) is a British rheumatologist and medical scholar. She is professor of medical education at University College London, former director of UCL Medical School, past president of the Royal College o ...
(born 1955), British rheumatologist
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Paul Dacre
Paul Michael Dacre (; born 14 November 1948) is an English journalist and the former long-serving editor of the British tabloid the ''Daily Mail''. He is also editor-in-chief of DMG Media, which publishes the ''Daily Mail'', ''The Mail on Sunda ...
(born 1948), editor of British newspaper the ''Daily Mail''
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Dacre Stoker
Dacre Calder Stoker (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian-American writer and former pentathlete, as well as the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker. He co-authored the international best-selling '' Dracula the Un-dead'' (2009), and '' Dracul'' (2 ...
(born 1958), Canadian-American author, sportsman, and filmmaker
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Dacre Montgomery
Dacre Kayd Montgomery-Harvey (; born 22 November 1994) is an Australian actor. Montgomery began acting in short films as a teenager before making his feature film debut in the adventure comedy ''A Few Less Men'' (2017).
In 2017, Montgomery star ...
(born 1994), Australian actor
Other uses
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Dacre knot, a heraldic knot
* Dacre Shanks, a fictional serial killer and parody of Freddy Krueger in ''
Demon Road''
See also
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Dacres, a surname
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Dacor (disambiguation)
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