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

Life

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

In 1763 James and Charles Dalbiac occupied 20 Spital Square, in eastern London, as manufacturers of silk and velvet. Around 1764 Charles Dalbiac owned Durdans, a house, near Epsom, Surrey. It was rebuilt for him by William Newton, over the years 1764–1768.

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

Family

Dalbiac first married Suzanne de Visme. They had two daughters:

• Louisa, or Lucy, married Peter John Luard (father of John Luard).
• Susannah, or Susan.

By his second wife, Ann Le Bas, he had three children:

• Sir Charles Dalbiac (born 1776).
• George.
• Harriet, married Sir James Pitcairn (1776–1859).

Anne Dalbiac, his widow, died in 1819 at age 72.

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 .
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.

• 1726 births
• 1808 deaths
• English businesspeople
• English people of French descent
• Huguenots
• High sheriffs of Berkshire
• People from Hungerford
• People from Spitalfields