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Richard Thomas Dyke Acland

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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Richard Acland

Born: 26 November 1906

Died: 24 November 1990

15th Baronet - 9 June 1939

brother of Arthur Geoffrey Dyke Acland

son of Eleanor Margaret Acland

Education

Rugby School

Balliol College, Oxford

Elections fought

30 May 1929		Torquay	Liberal Party	16,337	37.47
27 October 1931		Barnstaple	Liberal Party	18,318	47.77
14 November 1935		Barnstaple	Liberal Party	19,432	50.59
26 June 1942 Sir Richard Acland forms the Common Wealth Movement.
5 July 1945		Putney	Common Wealth Movement	2,686	7.97
26 November 1947		Gravesend	Labour Party	24,692	51.76
23 February 1950		Gravesend	Labour Party	28,297	53.07
25 October 1951		Gravesend	Labour Party	30,055	55.29
10 March 1955 Sir Richard Acland, Bt resigns the Labour whip in protest at the party's stand on nuclear weapons.
22 March 1955 Resignation of Sir Richard Acland, Bt.
26 May 1955		Gravesend	Independent	6,514	13.65
Sir Richard Acland, Bt was opposed to the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.