Charles Dalbiac

Charles Dalbiac (1726–1808)^[1] was an English Huguenot textile manufacturer. He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1784.^[2]

Life

He was son of James D'Albiac, a Huguenot refugee, and younger brother of James Dalbiac (born 1720).^[1]

In 1763 James and Charles Dalbiac occupied 20 Spital Square, in eastern London, as manufacturers of silk and velvet.^[3] Around 1764 Charles Dalbiac owned Durdans, a house, near Epsom, Surrey.^[4] It was rebuilt for him by William Newton, over the years 1764–8.^[5]

Durdans, Surrey, 1816 engraving

Dalbiac by 1784 acquired Hungerford Park, from a Mr Waters.^[6] He had a new mansion built there, in the Italian style.^[7] He then sold it, in 1796, to John Willes.^[6]

Family

Dalbiac married, first, Suzanne de Visme.^[8] They had two daughters:^[1]

• Louisa, or Lucy, married Peter John Luard.^[9]
• Susannah, or Susan.

By his second wife, Ann Le Bas, he had three children:^[1]

• Sir Charles Dalbiac (born 1776).^[9][10]
• George.
• Harriet, married Sir James Pitcairn (1776–1859).^[11][12]

Anne Dalbiac, his widow, died in 1819 at age 72.^[13][14]

Notes

1. David C. A. Agnew (1871). Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV, Or, the Huguenot Refugees and Their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland. Reeves & Turner. p. 305.
2. William Nelson Clarke (1824). Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting: With Other Miscellaneous Records Relating to the County of Berks. W. Barter. p. 55.
3. "The St. John and Tillard estate: Spital Square", in Survey of London: Volume 27, Spitalfields and Mile End New Town, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1957), pp. 55–73. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol27/pp55-73 [accessed 5 June 2016].
4. "The Durdans - Epsom - Surrey - England, British Listed Buildings". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
5. Howard Colvin (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840. John Murray. p. 592. ISBN 0 7195 3328 7.
6. Daniel Lysons (1813). Magna Britannia;: Bedfordshire. Berkshire. Buckinghamshire.-v.2.Cambridgeshire. The county palatine of Chester.-v.3.Cornwall.-v.4.Cumberland.-v.5.Derbyshire.-v.6.Devonshire. pp. 296–.
7. Daniel Paterson (1822). A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain. p. 554.
8. Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1998). Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Society. p. 269.
9. Sir Bernard Burke (1853). Index to Burke's dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Colburn and Company. p. 377.
10. Comprehensive Dictionary of the World. Mittal Publications. p. 7. GGKEY:H4YS7FFZYAN.
11. The Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage, Of Great Britain And Ireland For ... Including All the Titled Classes. Whittaker And Company. 1860. p. 456.
12. "Pitcairn, Sir James - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
13. Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle. E. Cave. 1819. p. 189.
14. John S. Amery (1913). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries. J. G. Commin. p. 384.