Vice Admiral Sir Richard Dacres GCH served on HMS Victory

On the Milligen side, Edmund Henry Seppings’ extended family branched, through marriage, into the following families: Carroll, Dacres, Doughty, Olivier, and Rivett, which produced a number of notable second and once and twice removed cousins, including several ‘Sirs’.

• A first cousin once removed is child of the first cousin.
• A second cousin is the child of the parent’s first cousin.
• A second cousin once removed is the grandchild of the parent’s first cousin
• A third cousin is the child of one’s parent’s second cousin.

Milligen – Dacres, Carroll, Olivier families

Captain John Milligen (1730-1788), with his wife Martha Phillips, had no children of their own and adopted Lt Edmund Henry Seppings’ father, Lt John Milligen Seppings, his uncle Sir Robert Seppings, and aunt Elizabeth Seppings (b.1744). They also adopted two orphaned daughters of his brother, Thomas Milligen – Charlotte (1770-1834), who married her first cousin Robert Seppings (Sir) in 1795, and her sister Martha Phillips Milligen (1767-1840) who married Richard Dacres (1761-1837) in 1788, the fifth son of Richard Dacres, esq., Secretary to the Garrison of Gibraltar. 

Charlotte and Martha Phillips Milligen were Edmund Henry Seppings’ father’s first cousins, therefore his first cousins once removed, and their children were his second cousins. Their grandchildren were his second cousins once removed.

Dacres – 1st cousin once removed

Portrait of Vice Admiral Sir Richard Dacres by Sir William Beechey 

Martha Phillips Milligen (1766-1840) married Vice Admiral Sir Richard Dacres GCH (1761-1837) in 1789 at Plymouth, Devon. Richard Dacres, with the British Royal Navy, sailed to the West Indies in the early 1780s, served during the American War of Independence, including the Capture of New York, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, on the Victory. In 1808, he was appointed the first governor of the Royal Naval Asylum, Greenwich. He was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order.
Sir Richard Dacres’ older brother, James Richard Dacres (1749-1810), was a vice-admiral of the Red squadron in the Royal Navy. Following the Treaty of Amiens he became Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, then commander of the Jamaica Station (1804-08). There he amassed considerable wealth from the spoils of prize warfare. His son Barrington Dacres (d.1806) became a post-captain, and James Richard Dacres (1788-1853), a vice-admiral of the Red, married Arabella Boyd Dalyrymple (1792-1828), in 1810, daughter of Gen-Sir Hew Whitefoord ‘Dowager’ Dalyrymple, 1st Baronet, a Scottish general in the British Army and Governor of Gibraltar. One of their sons, also James Richard Dacres (1811-48) was in the RN and died at Mozambique when in command of HMS Nimrod; another son, Lt Hew Dalrymple Dacres died at sea in 1835 age 21. They had four daughters: one daughter married Lt James Belgrave RN, and Arabella Dacres (1813-99) married Lt Col Butler.
Another brother of Richard’s was William George Dacres (b. 1758), a lieutenant-colonel in the British army. His sister, Mary Dacres (d. 1779), was lady in charge of the Royal children, (including Princess Charlotte, Princess Royal, later Queen of Württemberg, and Princess Augusta Sophia) as Dresser from 1770 until her marriage in 1777 to Henry Compton, a page-in-waiting to George III. They only had one child, Augusta Caroline Compton, as Mary died in childbirth in 1779. Augusta married Thomas Baynes, a captain in the Royal Navy, in 1813. 

The War of 1812 – The surrender of Captain Dacres
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Dacres’ nephew, James Richard Dacres (1788-1853), was a vice-admiral of the Red squadron in the Royal Navy.

Martha and Richard Dacres had twin daughters Martha Dacres (1795-1854) and Mary Milligen Dacres (1795-1858), and two surviving sons: Field-Marshal Sir Richard James Dacres (1799–1886) and Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres (1805–1884). They were Edmund Henry Seppings’ second cousins.

Lower Swainswick House

Martha and Richard Dacres lived in Lower Swainswick House, a Grade II listed villa with half an acre of gardens close to the city of Bath. In the Bath Chronicle of Thu 17 Aug 1837 p2, in an advertisement for its rental: ‘The house was built in 1829, at an expence of upwards of £1100, the outer walls are not less than 18 inches thick, and it is neatly fitted up, in every respect, for a genteel family. It was nearly five years in the occupation of the late Admiral Dacres and is most delightfully situated near the Gloucester Road, about half a mile beyond Grisvenor Place, Bath . . .’
Both Richard and Martha were living in Balebrook Villas, near Bath, when they died.

Dacres – 2nd cousins

Martha Dacres (1795-1854) married Rear Admiral Sir William Fairbrother Carroll (1784-1862) on 3 Aug 1813 in Stoke Damerel, Devon. Born in Glencarrig, Glenealy, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, William entered the Navy in 1795, on board the Diamond 38. After contributing to the destruction of a convoy at Herqui, the Capt Sir William Sidney Smith and William were taken prisoner in the river Seine 18 April, 1796. On his release from captivity, in Aug 1797, he assisted at the capture of Surinam in Aug 1799.
William spent time in the West Indies, the North Sea, stormed the Island of Capri, attended the expedition to the Dardanells in 1807, and during the operations against Copenhagen commanded an armed launch against the flotilla. Captain Dacres and Lieutenant Carroll were instrumental in extinguishing a fire which broke out in the Naval Arsenal dock-yard, and ‘hauling the hot shells from the flames, whilst others were bursting round them’.
During the war of 100 days, he commanded in the Mediterranean, and on the Irish station, until Sept 1818. He was Flag-Captain on the East India station. William saw action 67 times, and aided at the capture of 19 sail of the line, 18 frigates, and a vast number of smaller vessels; he was once aboard a ship which sunk. He was officially mentioned on two occasions by the Duke of Wellington and awarded an Order of the Bath (CB). He was knighted in 1852.
Retired from the RN, Capt Carroll became head of the Bath police. As Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital, he died at his residence there. 

William and Martha had two sons and seven daughters: Catherine Mary Augusta Carroll (1818-1893), William Dacres Carroll (1819-1846), Eleanor Henrietta Carroll (1821-1902), Mary Anna Elizabeth Carroll (1822-1869), Augusta Eliza Carroll (1824-1868), Louisa Sidney Carroll (1830-1904), Herbert Alexander Carroll (1832-1866), and Lucy Anne Carroll (1835-1907). In 1841, they lived in Bathwick Street, Bath, Somerset.

The Potterne Manor House, Wiltshire

Mary Milligen Dacres (1795-1858) married Lieutenant Colonel Henry Stephen Olivier (1795-1864), a British soldier of the 32d regiment and then the 65 Foot, in 1823, Somerset. The Olivier’s came from a long line of Huguenots a religious group of French Protestants.
Mary and Henry lived with their children at Potterne Manor in Wiltshire: Julia Olivier (b.1824), Rev Henry Arnold Olivier (1826-1912), Mary Anne Olivier (1827-1918), Margaret Harriet Olivier (b.1829), Dacres Olivier (1831-1919), Alfred Olivier (b.1833), Edith Georgiana Olivier (1838-1864).
Manor of Potterne was held by the Bishops of Salisbury until 1836, when it was sold to Major H S Olivier, and in 1878 to J Gwatkin.
Henry began collecting art after acquiring a large box of drawings in Paris and amassed a fine collection of 16th and 17th centuries Dutch and Italian drawings. Following his death, whilst holidaying in Torquay, a selection of his drawings were sold. ‘One was bought by the British Museum in 1870. His collection would remain dormant for the next few decades, before being exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford during the First World War. Many of them were later inherited by his granddaughter Miss Maud Olivier, who dispersed them through Sotheby’s in 1920 and 1948.’
Mary and Henry were the great-grandparents of the actor Sir Laurence Olivier.

The Tower, London

Field Marshal Sir Richard James Dacres (1799-1886) (Governor of the Tower) was in the British Army, and in 1854 was appointed to command the force of royal horse artillery, sent to Turkey. He commanded the cavalry division in the descent on the Crimea and at the battle of the Alma. It headed the advance on Sebastopol, was engaged at Bulganak, Mackenzie’s farm, the battle of Balaclava, and in the repulse of the Russian sortie. At the battle of Inkerman, his horse was killed under him, and on the death of Brigadier-general Fox-Strangways Dacres took command of all the artillery in the Crimea, until the end of the war. He was made a KCB for his distinguished services, and received a medal and four clasps, as well as the Turkish medal, and was made a commander of the Legion of Honour, a commander of the 1st class of the order of Savoy, and a knight of the 2nd class of the Medjidie. In 1881, he was appointed constable of the Tower of London, and became the British Army’s Royal Artillery master gunner.

Field Marshal Sir Richard James Dacres 1856

Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres

Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres (1805-1884) in the Royal navy, received the crosses of the Legion of Honour and of the Redeemer of Greece. Sidney served off the coast of Spain, and commanded the flag-captain to Sir Charles Napier in the Channel. He took part in the operations in the Mediterranean, before Sebastopol, leading to the invasion of the Crimea, and received a CB. In 1859 he was appointed captain of the fleet in the Mediterranean, on the Marlborough. In 1863, he was appointed commander-in-chief in the Channel until 1865, having been made a KCB. In 1868, Dacres became First Naval Lord, until 1872. He became full admiral in 1870, and GCB in 1871. On his retirement he was appointed governor of Greenwich Hospital until his death at Brighton in 1884.
Sidney Colpoys Dacres married Jane Emma Lambert (1819-1913) in 1840 and they had at least four children including Sidney Dacres, and Cpt Seymour Henry Pelham Dacres (1847-1887).

Sidney Colpoys Dacres was appointed captain of the fleet in the Mediterranean, on the Marlborough.

Carroll – 2nd cousins once removed

Lt William Dacres Carroll (1819-1846), entered the RN in 1832 and served at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. He was killed, in 1846, while temporarily on board President 50, in Simon’s Bay.

Catherine Mary Augusta Carroll (1818-1893) born in Clonmel, County Cork, Ireland, married Rev Joseph Walker (1806-1899) in Bath, Somerset, in 1843 and they had 13 children. They lived in Great Billing, Northamptonshire, from at least 1851-1891.

Mary Anna Elizabeth Carroll (1822-1869) married Rev Frederick Fleming Beadon (1805-1880) had four daughters and two sons.

Louisa Sidney Carroll (1830-1904) married Cpt. Henry Jermyn Montgomery Campbell (1827-1893) of Thurmaston Hall, Leicester, on 27 Apr 1854 in Queenstown, Clonmel, County Cork, Ireland. They had three daughters and three sons. Henry served with the Royal Artillery, a captain in the Royal West Kent Regiment. Their daughter Eleanor Georgina Montgomery Campbell (1862-1951) married Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle (1856-1934), who, for his service in the Boer War, was mentioned in despatches (including by Lord Kitchener in 1902, and was appointed a Knight Commander of KCMG. Their daughter Mildred Montgomery Campbell (1864-1944) married Captain Walter Stewart Stewart-Savile (1855-1930) in 1887, at Thurmaston, Leicestershire.

Herbert Alexander Carroll (1832-1866) married Lucy Park (1830-1919) at Holy Trinity, Marylebone Road, Westminster in 1862. They had three children.

Olivier – 2nd cousins once removed

Rev Henry Arnold Olivier (1826-1912) married Anne Elizabeth Hardcastle Arnould (1827-1912) in 1850, at Wallingford, Oxfordshire. They had ten children including: Henry Dacres Olivier (1850-1935), Julia Elizabeth Olivier (b.1852), Annie Olivier (1856-7), Edith Mary Olivier (b.1857), Sydney Haldane Olivier (1859-1943), Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861-1952), Maud Margaret Olivier (b.1864), Evelyn Louise Olivier (b.1867), Herbert Olivier (b.1867), and Rev Gerard Kerr Olivier (1869-1939).

Dacres Olivier (1831-1919), Rector of Wilton and Canon of Salisbury

Rev Dacres Olivier (1831-1919), was the Rector of the new Italianate Church in Wilton and private chaplain to the Earl of Pembroke; and in 1912, after his retirement, the Canon of Salisbury. He married Mary Eliza Merelina Gould (1833-59) in 1858, Norwich, Norfolk, and they had one child, Daines Edward Olivier (b.1859). Dacres married Emma Selina Eden (1835-1908), daughter of Robert Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross, in 1861, in Richmond, Yorkshire. Dacres and Emma had ten children including Henry Eden Oliver (1866-1948), Sidney Richard Olivier (1870-1932), Edith Maud Olivier (1872–1948), and Robert Harold Olivier (1879-1914). The children played on the neighbouring grounds of the Earl of Pembroke’s estate at Wilton.

Captain Robert Harold Olivier (d.1914), the youngest son, served in the 1^st Batallion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in the South African War, and Nandi Expedidion, 1905- 6. He died in 1914 age 35 and was buried in France.

Dacres – 2nd cousin once removed

Cpt Seymour Henry Pelham Dacres, (1847-1887) served in the Royal Navy. In 1865, he was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal, and in 1875 he received a clasp for the medal. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1881 and died of meningitis at Yokohama, Japan, age forty.

Olivier – 2nd cousin twice removed

Lt-Col Henry Dacres Olivier (1850-1935) married Mary Campbell Duckworth (1863-1891) in Marylebone, London, 1888. He married Florence Gwendoline Powis Hunter (b.1873) in Reigate, Surrey, 1900. They had two children. Henry was an art collector.

Harry Olivier Sumner Gibson

Julia Elizabeth Olivier (b.1852) married Walter Sumner Gibson (b.1849), an academic reader at the Oxford University Press from 1914, in Crondall, Hampshire, in 1884. They had six children and lived in Headington, Oxfordshire. Their eldest son, Lt Harry Olivier Sumner Gibson (1885-1917), was a School Prefect and won the Natural Science Prize at Winchester School. He received a BA (2nd Class) in Natural Science in 1908 at New College, Oxford University, and worked as an Assistant Inspector for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. He married Hester Worth Townsend in June 1914. In September, he enlisted with the British Army, serving with the London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) in WW1. He was killed in action at the Second Battle of Gaza Wadi, Gaza, State of Palestine. They had two sons.

Lord Sydney Haldane Olivier (1859-1943), 1st Baron Olivier, KCMG, CB, PC was a British colonial administrator, politician, writer and scholar. He received his education at Tonbridge School, and then studied philosophy and theology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He sat for the civil service exam and in 1882 began work as a resident clerk at the Colonial Office. He also worked at Toynbee Hall in the East End of London, living in the slums of Whitechapel and teaching Latin at the Working Men’s College. In 1885 he joined the Fabian Society, as one of the first members, serving as its secretary 1886-90. He authored a number of essays for them, including Capital and Land and Moral Aspects of the Basis of Socialism, and contributed to the Fabian Essays (1889).
In 1890, Sydney was acting Colonial Secretary of British Honduras, then Auditor-General of the Leeward Islands (1895). He served as colonial secretary in Jamaica 1899-1904 and Governor of Jamaica 1907-13, and assistant comptroller and auditor of the Exchequer (1917-1920). As a member of the Labour Party, in 1924 he was Secretary of State for India in the first government of Ramsay MacDonald. He wrote a number works dealing with colonial questions, including White Capital and Coloured Labour (1906, rev. ed. 1927) and The Anatomy of African Misery (1927). He married Margaret Cox (b.1861) in 1885, Tonbridge, Kent. They had four children.

Herbert Arnould Olivier, official war artist

Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861-1952) artist and traveller, was best known for his portrait and landscape paintings; and a range of allegorical and plein air pictures of gardens in England and Italy. He was educated at Sherborne, and in 1881 he studied at the Royal Academy Schools where he won the Creswick Prize for landscape painting and went on to exhibit there every year until 1944. He taught at the Bombay School of Art and travelled to Kashmir with H.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Sixty-six of the pictures he painted on this trip were exhibited at The Fine Art Society in 1885. He was appointed an official war artist. His exhibited pictures were mainly portraits of the late Victorian and Edwardian Society, including King George V and King Edward VIII when Prince of Wales, and are now in museums and private collections. In 1908 he held a one man show of 187 pictures at the Grafton Gallery entitled Indian Princes, Kew Gardens, Italian Landscapes and other pictures. In the same year many of the pictures of Kew were published in a book on the gardens. His studio house was in Airlie Gardens, Holland Park. He was awarded medals at the Salon des Artistes Français, Paris.

Summer is Icumen 1902

Evelyn Louise Olivier (b.1867) married Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson (1867-1949) in 1895, at Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. Charles was an English architect and designer who specialised in ecclesiastical buildings and war memorials. His father was Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (1808-1903) was an English-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist. The Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney was named after him. They had two daughters and one son: Sir John Nicholson (1904-86).

Rev Gerard Kerr Olivier (1869-1939) who also became a Protestant clergyman, married Agnes Louise Crookenden (1871-1920) in 1898. They had three children: Sybille Olivier (1901-1989), Gerard d’Acres Olivier (1904-1958) and Laurence Kerr Olivier, Sir (1907-1989).

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Rev Henry Eden Oliver MA (1866-1948) was a B A Oxon Theological Student, and alumni members of the University of Oxford, of St Michael’s Vicarage, Maidstone, and was an Honorary Canon of Canterbury. He married Gertrude Isabella Capel Cure (1868-1948), daughter of Revered Edward Cure, and they had three sons.

Cpt Sidney Richard Olivier, CMG, RN (1870-1932) was born at Wilton, Wiltshire and educated at Allhallows College in Honiton, before attending the Britannia Royal Naval College. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Navy 1892 and was promoted to commander in 1903. Following his appointment to command Syren in 1905, he ran the destroyer aground at Berehaven during exercises and the severe damage led to a Court Martial which determined was an error of judgement. He was subsequently reprimanded and relieved of his command. In 1908, Rear-Admiral Adair described Olivier as, ‘zealous and hardworking but very tactless and unfortunate manner’. He was appointed in command of the first class protected cruiser St George in 1915 to 1919. He was also the senior naval officer at Salonika. For his service in the war, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George and in the 1919 New Year Honours. He was decorated by France with the Legion of Honour, by the Kingdom of Greece with the Order of the Redeemer, and by the Kingdome of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with the Order of the White Eagle. In 1920, he retired from active service and was granted the rank of captain.
Sidney was also a first-class English cricketer. He fielded as a wicket-keeper. He married Etheldred Mary Hodgson (1870-1961) in 1897, in Millbrook, Hampshire. They had two sons and three daughters.

Edith Olivier by Lady Ottoline Morrell in the grounds of Wilton House
Edith Olivier, First Lady Mayor of Wilton by Rex Whistler 1939

Edith Maud Olivier (1872–1948), daughter of Rev Dacres Olivier (1831-1919), one of ten children, was home-schooled by her mother and a governess. She won a scholarship and attended St Hugh’s College, Oxford, for four terms. Whilst at Oxford she befriended Charles Dodgson (writer, Lewis Carroll). She helped found the Wiltshire Women’s Land Army during the First World War, and a register of 4000 women. In 1920 she received an MBE for her work. 
A writer of novels, non-fiction, biographies and autobiographies, in 1926 Edith wrote The Love-Child, her first and most successful novel. She wrote Journals from 1 March 1894 to 22 April 1948. Her Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady was illustrated by her close friend, artist Rex Whistler. They encouraged and inspired each other. Rex was in The Bright Young Things, a group of aristocrats, socialites, and Bohemians, on the Earl of Pembroke’s estate at Wilton. She was a hostess to an elite circle of well-known writers, artists, and composers in Wiltshire, including photographer Cecil Beaton, poet Siegfried Sassoon, socialite Stephen Tennant, poet Edith Sitwell and her brother, writer Sir Francis Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet, and composer William Walton. During the roaring 1920s, ‘a young, privileged group of people rebelling against their Victorian parents and indulging in a hedonistic lifestyle throwing theatrical fancy dress pageants and weekend country house parties’. Edith became their hostess, confidante, and muse. She knew aristocrat Lady Ottoline Morrell and was instrumental in encouraging Cecil Beaton to move to Wiltshire.
In 1934, Edith was the first woman councillor on Wilton Borough Council and was Mayor of Wilton 1938-1941. It was her responsibility, as mayor, to house the refugee children and mothers of babies evacuated from London during WW2.

Cpt Robert Harold Olivier (1879-1914) gained the rank of Captain in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. His son was Brigadier Charles Harold Arthur Olivier CBE (1912-1992).

Olivier – 3rd cousin

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier (1907-1989), was an English actor and director. He was one of three male actors who dominated the British stage during the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles, and late in his career had television roles.

Milligen – Rivett – Doughty families

Martlesham Hall, Suffolk

Helen Milligen (1753-1811) married Ezekiel Rivett (b.1749) of Hoxne Abbey. Their daughter Catherine Rivett (b. 1775) married Rev George Clarke Doughty (1769-1832) of Hoxne in 1796. He was the Vicar of Hoxne and Rector of Martlesham Hall, Suffolk. His father, George Doughty Esq, built Theberton Hall in 1792. Helen Milligen was Lt Edmund Henry Seppings’s great aunt. Her daughter Catherine Rivett was his first cousin once removed. George and Catherine’s children were his second cousins. They had several children, two of whom are documented: Rev Charles Montague Doughty (1798-1850) and Frederic Goodwin Doughty (1797-1878).

Doughty – 2nd cousins

Rev Charles Montague Doughty (1798-1850) was ordained in 1823 and married Frederica Hotham (1808-1843), daughter of Hon and Rev FC Hotham, Rector of Dennington, in 1840, in Dennington, Suffolk. They had two sons: Henry M Doughty RN (1841-1916), and Charles Montague Doughty (1843-1926).

Frederic Goodwin Doughty (1797-1878) of Martlesham Hall, Church Lane, East Suffolk, and Woodbridge, in Suffolk Coastal district, was ordained in 1859, the Rector and Patron of Martlesham. In 1866, in Fulham, London, he married Beatrice Cunningham (b.1797), daughter and co-heir of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Cunningham (1755-1834), of Oak Lawn House near Eye. In 1779, Cunningham was first lieutenant to Nelson in the Hinchingbrooke. Frederic and Beatrice had: Frederic Ernest Doughty (b.1867), Ernest George Doughty (d.1915 age 79), and Chester Doughty (1868-1928).

Doughty – 2nd cousins once removed

Henry M Doughty RN (1841-1916) an equity draftsman and conveyancer who married Edith Rebecca Cameron (1843-1870), the only daughter of David Cameron (1804-1872), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the colony of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. They were married in Aug 1860 on Vancouver Island.

Charles Montague Doughty (1843-1926) was a poet, writer and traveller who spent time living with the Bedouins during the 1870s. His Travels in Arabia Deserta was published in 1888, and 1936. He received the RGS Royal Founders Medal. Charles married Caroline Amelia McMurdo (1862-1950) in 1886, in Fulham, London. They had two children: Dorothy Susan Doughty (1892-1962), an artist, and Frederika Gertrude Doughty (1894-1972).

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Frederic Ernest Doughty (b.1867) was ordained Rector and Patron of Martlesham in 1891.

Ernest George Doughty (d.1915 age 79), married Frances Mary Christie of Framlingham Manor, Norfolk, in 1866.

Cpt Chester Doughty (1868-1928) joined the Suffolk Regiment in 1890 and was captain by 1899. He was taken a Prisoner of War in WW1.

Charles Montague Doughty (1843-1926)

Illustration Credits 

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/hms-victory

Portrait of Vice Admiral Sir Richard Dacres , G.C.H. 1761-1837
oil on board 25 x 20 cm. (9.3/4 x 7.3/4 in.)
Artist Sir William Beechey RA 1753-1839 was a leading English portraitist during the golden age of British painting.
https://www.artwarefineart.com/gallery/portrait-vice-admiral-sir-richard-dacres-gch-1761-%E2%80%93-1837

The War of 1812 – The surrender of Captain Dacres
Surrender Of Captain James Richard Dacres War Of 1812 Book Photo Display
https://www.ebay.com/itm/220338300005

James Richard Dacres (1788-1853), a vice-admiral of the Red.
Stipple engraving of Vice-Admiral James Richard Dacres RN (1749-1810)
Bowyer, Robert [artist], Gold, Joyce [publisher], Page, R [engraver] – The National Maritime Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Richard_Dacres_%28Royal_Navy_officer,_born_1749%29

Lower Swainswick House
https://content.knightfrank.com/property/bth190058/brochures/en/bth190058-en-brochure-bce0cef7-06b8-4bb8-8e5c-febf7708c171-1.pdf

Bailbrook – House, near Bath
J. West British, active 1820-1830 Bailbrook-House, Near Bath Lithograph, 171 x 229mm
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/78-194/j-west/bailbrook-house-near-bath
https://www.handpickedhotels.co.uk/images/hotels/bailbrook-house/brochures/2024/Heritage/7580_HPH_BBH_HistoryBooklet.pdf

The Potterne Manor House, Wiltshire
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1243110
https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/4197.html
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101243110-the-manor-house-potterne

The Tower, London, Photochrom prints – Color – 1890-1900, Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich: Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. “1502”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print, https://www.loc.gov/item/2002696927/

Portrait of Field Marshal Sir Richard James Dacres 1856
Source: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw157036/Sir-Edward-Bruce-Hamley-Sir-John-Miller-Adye-Sir-Richard-James-Dacres?LinkID=mp103285&sea…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_James_Dacres

Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres
Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres – from a 19th century photo labeled Rear-Admiral Sydney Dacres CB First Sea Lord 1868-72. Unknown author – Unknown source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Dacres

Marlborough served as flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1858–64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marlborough_

Dacres Olivier (1831-1919), Rector of Wilton and Canon of Salisbury
Unknown photographer, albumen print, early 1860s, National Portrait Gallery
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp144581/dacres-olivier

Harry Olivier Sumner Gibson (1885-1917)
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1341423

Herbert Arnould Olivier, official war artist
Olivier, Herbert Arnould; Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson, 2nd Bt (1867-1949), Architect and Inhabitant of Porters; Southend-on-Sea Borough Council; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/sir-charles-archibald-nicholson-2nd-bt-18671949-architect-and-inhabitant-of-porters-2990
Summer is Icumen In 1902 Oil on canvas 183 x 137cms
https://www.artrenewal.org/artists/herbert-arnould-olivier/7069

Edith Olivier, in the grounds of Wilton House
Lady Ottoline Morrell – National Portrait Gallery website http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw113308/Edith-Olivier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Olivier

Edith Olivier, First Lady Mayor of Wilton by Rex Whistler 1939
Rex Whistler’s 1939 portrait of Olivier
Rex Whistler – Art UK: entry edith-olivier-18721948-first-lady-mayor-of-wilton-65136

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier (1907-1989)
https://www.notrecinema.com/images/usercontent/star/laurence-olivier-photo_64762_19947

Martlesham Hall, Suffolk
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martlesham_Hall_-geograph.org.uk-_894619
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101030892-martlesham-hall-martlesham

Charles Montague Doughty (1843-1926)
Portrait of the author illustration from Passages From Arabia Deserta by Charles Montagu Doughty 1931, lithograph

Research Resources

Our Family History Faith Packard (1989)

https://www.familysearch.org/

Dacres families

Vice Admiral Sir Richard Dacres GCH (1761-1837)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dacres_(Royal_Navy_officer)
https://gpp.rct.uk/Record.aspx?src=Catalog&id=C_BAYNES
https://content.knightfrank.com/property/bth190058/brochures/en/bth190058-en-brochure-bce0cef7-06b8-4bb8-8e5c-febf7708c171-1.pdf
https://www.batharchives.co.uk/sites/www.bathvenues.co.uk/files/2022-07/St%2520Saviour%2527s%2520Memorials%2520Draft%25201b.pdf
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Biography/Dacres,_Richard
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900Volume 13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Richard_Dacres_(Royal_Navy_officer,_born_1788)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Whitefoord_Dalrymple

Admiral Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres (1805-1884)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Dacres,_Sidney_Colpoys

Carroll families

Rear Admiral Sir William Fairbrother Carroll (1784-1862)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Naval_Biographical_Dictionary/Carroll,_William_Dacres

Cpt. Henry Jermyn Montgomery Campbell (1827-1893)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_of_Barrichbeyan
Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle (1856-1934)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Rundle

Olivier families

Rev Dacres Olivier (1831-1919)

Captain Robert Harold Olivier (1879-1914)
https://www.thepeerage.com/p58694.htm
https://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+%210%3A195442+1-10-0-0-0

Cpt Seymour Henry Pelham Dacres, (1847-1887)
http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php?title=Seymour_Henry_Pelham_Dacres&oldid=324202

Walter Sumner Gibson (b.1849)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Gibson_(rugby)

Lord Sydney Haldane Olivier (1859-1943)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/olivier-sydney-haldane-olivier-1st-baron
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Olivier-5625
https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/olivier-sydney-haldane-olivier-1st-baron

Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861-1952)
https://www.dreweatts.com/news-videos/herbert-arnould-olivier-1861-1952-edwardian-artist-and-traveller-old-master-british-and-european-art-auction-14538/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Arnould_Olivier
Antique Print 1904 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/356974745867

Sir Charles Archibald Nicholson (1867-1949)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nicholson,_1st_Baronet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nicholson,_2nd_Baronet

Cpt Sidney Richard Olivier, CMG, RN (1870-1932)
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Sidney_Olivier
http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Sidney_Richard_Olivier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Olivier
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/9WW9-17X

Edith Maud Olivier (1872–1948)
https://hersalisburystory.com/stories/edith-olivier/
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Edith_Olivier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Olivier

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier (1907-1989)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Olivier

Milligen – Rivett – Doughty families

Frederic Goodwin Doughty (1797-1878)
Cunningham
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-14114
https://morethannelson.com/officer/sir-charles-cunningham/

Henry M Doughty RN (1841-1916)
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cameron_david_10E.html