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DELANDE, PETER, brother of Albert Delande (qv); b. 28 Jan 1713/4; adm. Feb 1725/6; left 1728; adm. Middle Temple 10 Jun 1727; practised as an attorney in London; in partnership with his old schoolfellow Francis Duroure (qv) 1742-9, when he retired; settled in Sudbury, Suffolk, where he engaged in the coal trade; Mayor of Sudbury five times; m. 30 May 1748 Sarah Mears; d. 20 Apr 1790.

DELAPLACE, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 12) May 1739.

DELAPLACE, WILLIAM, son of Dennis Delaplace, headmaster of a preparatory school at Marylebone, and Catharine ---; bapt. 10 May 1727; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1742; Lieut., 26th Foot 2 Oct 1755; Capt. -Lieut., 29 Nov 1760; Capt. 18 Apr 1766; last mentioned in Army List 1777.

DELAVAL, ---; adm. 15 Sep 1767.

DELAVAL, ---; b.; in school list 1740.

DELAVAL, ---; b.; in school lists 1745-50.

DELAVAL, ---; b.; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767, 1769.

DELAVAL, EDWARD HUSSEY, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); bapt. 12 Jun 1729; adm. (aged 8) Apr 1738 (Hutton's); left 1748; Pembroke Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 4 Jul 1747, matr. 1748; BA 1750/1; MA 1754; Fellow of Pembroke Coll. 1751; contested Newcastle 1754; studied chemistry and experimental philosophy; FRS 6 Dec 1759, Copley Medal 1766; member, Royal Societies of Göttingen and Uppsala, and of Institute of Bologna; inherited Seaton Delaval estate, Northumberland, on death of his elder brother John Hussey Delaval, Baron Delaval (qv), in 1808; author, The Cause of Changes in Opaque and Coloured Bodies, 1777, and of various papers published in Philosophical Transactions; m. 22 Dec 1808 Sarah, dau. of George Scott, Methley, Yorks.; d. 14 Aug 1814. Buried in nave, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

DELAVAL, SIR FRANCIS BLAKE, eldest son of Capt. Francis Blake Delaval RN MP, Ford Castle and Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, and Rhoda, dau. of Robert Apreece, Washingley, Hunts.; b. 16 Mar 1727; adm. Oct 1737; left 1744; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Mar 1746/7; MP Hindon 4 May 1751-4, Andover 1754-68; KB 26 May 1751; the most fashionable and extravagant man of his day; m. 8 Mar 1749/50 Lady Isabella Tufton, widow of Lord Nassau Paulet MP, and dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet; d. 7 Aug 1771.

DELAVAL, GEORGE, brother of Sir Francis Blake Delaval (qv); bapt. 18 Dec 1736; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1748; in school list 1752; drowned at sea on passage to India with brother in ship Prince George 1758.