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called their proposed concessions "nugatory and humiliating" and certain to result in "a total convulsion of the
British Empire". His vehemence is said to have alarmed even King George III himself, no friend of the revolutionary colonists. In his capacity as a Colonel of Militia and bypassing parliament, he presented a loyal address to the king in person promising him aid whenever and wherever called upon to put down sedition and in which he portrayed the Whig opposition as rebels to the King's interests, akin to the American colonists. This action of his gained him the enmity of the Whig party. His wife's first cousin was the prominent Whig
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Acland was grateful for the treatment received when recuperating as a prisoner of war, so much so that following his return to
England he challenged a certain Lieutenant Lloyd to a duel when the latter spoke poorly of Americans at a dinner party. Although he survived the duel, he caught a cold during
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He died aged 31 on 22 November 1778, and thus predeceased his father. He left an infant son born in 1778, aged only a few months old, who died 7 years later, having inherited the baronetcy from his grandfather, and a daughter
Elizabeth "Kitty". His widow Harriet lived on at Pixton until 1796 when it
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Cornwall, and forcefully expressed his Tory views in parliament by virulently opposing the movement by the American colonists to obtain independence following their complaint of "No taxation without representation". He poured scorn on those fellow MP's who sought to appease the colonists and
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October 1774, the King spoke of a "rebellious war" which had been opened by the colonists who had fired shots at Lexington and Concord, and John Acland received the privilege of moving the formal vote of thanks to the
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into enemy territory in order to nurse her prisoner-of-war husband for nine weeks. An oil painting, now at
Killerton, was made illustrating her exploit of crossing the St Lawrence, and was exhibited at the
288:(1778–1785), who on 24 February 1785 at the age of 7 inherited the baronetcy on the death of his grandfather the 7th Baronet. He died a few weeks later aged 7, when the baronetcy passed to his uncle
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Lady Harriet Acland (nÊe Fox-Strangways) on the Hudson River, drawn & engraved by Robert Pollard, 1784
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324:See also
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