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The only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, [5] and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet [6] (who succeeded to the baronetcy and estates held by another branch of the Acton family in Shropshire in 1791), Acton was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, from 1837 to 1869.
Catherine Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 30 December 1939) Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton (30 July 1941 – 10 October 2010) John Charles Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 26 January 1943 — d. 25 December 2016) Robert Peter Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 23 June 1946) Jill Mary Joan Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (b. 15 June 1947) Professor Edward David Joseph Lyon ...
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton (1870–1924) John Emerich Henry Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton (1907–1989) Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton (1941–2010) John Charles Ferdinand Harold Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 5th Baron Acton (b. 1966) The heir presumptive is the present holder's uncle, Robert Peter ...
Born in Oxford, Lyon-Dalberg-Acton was educated at Winchester College (1980–1983) and Balliol College, Oxford (1984–1989). He wrote and farmed in Gloucestershire, married Lucinda Percival in 1998 [citation needed] and became the 5th Baron Acton and 17th Marquess of Groppoli upon the death of his father in October 2010.
In 1988, Acton married his third wife, Patricia Nassif, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City, Iowa. He divided his time between London and Cedar Rapids in Iowa. The couple remained married until his death. Lord Acton was succeeded by his son from his first marriage and only child John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 5th Baron ...
The 2nd Lord Acton then served as Second Secretary at successive embassies, in Vienna from August 1902; [3] then Berne, Switzerland; Madrid in 1906–07, and The Hague. In 1911 he was promoted First Secretary, in which grade he was charge d'affaires at Darmstadt and Karlsruhe in Germany until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Sir Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet (24 July 1801 – 31 January 1837) was a British baronet. Named in honour of the King of Naples, he was known as Richard to friends and family. He was born in Palermo where his father, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, a former Prime Minister of Naples, had been forced to flee in 1806. His ...
Dalberg-Acton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (1834–1902), English Catholic historian, politician, and writer; Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton (1801–1837), British baronet