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Had three sons and two daughters.
--- "Memoir and Letters of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Dyke Acland" by Sir T. D. Acland, page 94-5:
Just before Christmas of this year [1840] he became engaged to Miss Mary Mordaunt after many characteristic hesitations, and much correspondence beforehand with his father. It was now more than eight years since they had begun to be attached to one another, and his friends, and her firends often regretted in later years that his own self-distrust and want of confidence had led to such delay of a marriage which turned out so happily for them both. She was just his own age, and she was in warm sympathy with his religious views, and with his work. She was enthusiastic and lively by nature, with a vein of deep seriousness, and a great power of winning affection. Her father died when she was quite young.* Her mother, a woman of very decided character, had given her an excellent education. The old journal books of Lady Mordaunt show how much serious reading she and her two daughters accomplished together year by year. She had a great regard for Acland, her son John's old college friend. She only survived his marriage a few months, dying in 1842 . . .
The marriage took place at Sir John Mordaunt's home, Walton, in Warwickshire, on April 14, 1841. Acland and his wife took a house in Queen Street, Mayfair, in which they lived while in London, till after Acland left Parliament in 1847.
* Mary Mordaunt's father was Sir Charles Mordaunt, who was M.P. for the county of Warwick. He died in 1823, and was succeeded by his son John, then 14 years old. Her mother was a Miss Holbech. She died in 1842. There were four aunts on her father's side, (1) Mary, who married John Erskine, brother of Lord Rosslyn, and was the mother of Mary Erskine, Acland's second wife. (2) Catherine, who married the Rev. F. Mills, and was the mother of Arthur Mills, who married Acland's sister. (3) Charlotte, who married Mr. Tuckfield of Fulford in Devonshire. (4) Susan, who was the fourth wife of Lord St. Germans, whose house, Port Eliot, in Cornwall, was a sort of "second home" both to Mary Mordaunt and to Mary Erskine. In some notes about her childhood, Mary Mordaunt writes about one of her visits to Devonshire: "I was very fond of reading, and devoured all the story books I could borrow from Downes, where we often spent the day. . . . . It was at this time that we wore 'Acland for ever' round our brows, and Sir Thomas first patted me on the back."
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1811 - 1851 (39 years)
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