Francis Dyke Acland

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Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet (7 March 1874 – 9 June 1939) was a British Liberal politician.

The son of the 13th Baronet, Acland was educated at Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford. He initially worked in education in South Kensington and in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Acland was elected as Member of Parliament for Richmond, Yorkshire from 1906–1910; Camborne from 1910–1922, Tiverton, Devon from 1923–1924, and for Cornwall North from 1932–39.

Acland was Parliamentary Private Secretary to R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, from 1906–1908, and held office as Financial Secretary to the War Office from 1908–1910, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1911–1915, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from February–June 1915 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1915–1916. He was also a Forestry Commissioner.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1915 and succeeded father to the baronetcy in 1926.

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