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 his father to the baronetcy in 1926.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: John Hutton	Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire 1906–January 1910	Succeeded by: William Orde-Powlett
Preceded by: Albert Dunn	Member of Parliament for Camborne December 1910–1922	Succeeded by: Algernon Moreing
Preceded by: Herbert Sparkes	Member of Parliament for Tiverton 1923–1924	Succeeded by: Gilert Troyte
Preceded by: Sir Donald Maclean	Member of Parliament for Cornwall North 1932–1939	Succeeded by: Thomas Lewis Horabin
Baronetage of England
Preceded by: Sir Arthur Dyke Acland	Baronet (of Columb John, Devonshire) 1926–1939	Succeeded by: Sir Richard Dyke Acland