Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet (1752–1794). By British (English) School, Collection of National Trust, Killerton House
Arms of Acland: Chequy argent and sable, a fesse gules
Acland as a boy, portrait by Richard Phelps
Stalls in stable block built by Acland at Holnicote. The thirty stag heads on the walls date from about 1787 to 1793 and were killed under his mastership of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. A similar collection of stag heads amassed by his father the 7th Baronet, and much beloved by the latter, was destroyed during a fire at Holnicote in 1779[1]
Loose boxes in stable block built by Acland at Holnicote, with his stag head trophies

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet (18 April 1752 – 17 May 1794) of Killerton in Devon and Holnicote in Somerset, was a prominent landowner and member of the West Country gentry. He was especially noted for his passion for staghunting, in which respect he took after his father.[2] Like his father he was known locally in Devon and Somerset as "Sir Thomas his Honour".[3]

  1. ^ Acland, Anne, p. 25
  2. ^ Acland, Anne. A Devon Family: The Story of the Aclands. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1981, pp. 15–28
  3. ^ Acland, 1981, p. 26