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Daniel de Lisle Brock
Daniel de Lisle Brock (1762–1842) was Bailiff of Guernsey from 1821 until his death 1842.
The Brocks were an English family who had been established in Guernsey since the sixteenth century. Daniel was a nephew of William Brock (1725–1768), of Brockhurst, St Peter Port (now owned by the National Trust of Guernsey), who was married to Judith de Beauvoir; and Henry Brock, who was married to Susan, sister of Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez. Daniel was one of fourteen children, ten of whom attained maturity. He was an elder brother of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock.
After such schooling as the island afforded in those days, he was placed at Alderney to learn French under the tuition of M. Vallat, a Swiss pastor, afterwards rector of St. Peter-in-the-Wood, Guernsey, and subsequently at a school at Richmond, Surrey.
He was, however, taken away at the age of fourteen to accompany his father, who was in failing health, to France, where the latter died at Dinan. He spent about twelve months in visiting the Mediterranean, Switzerland, and France, in 1785-6,
Twelve years later, in 1798, at the age of 36, he was elected a Jurat of the royal court of Guernsey, from which time his name is intimately associated with the history of his native place and its independence from England.
On four separate occasions, between 1804 and 1810, he was deputed by the states and Royal Court of Guernsey to represent them in London, in respect of certain measures affecting the trade and ancient privileges of the island. The third occasion was to defend against the Royal Navy trying to impress island men, this was argued in opposition to his brother-in-law, Admiral James Saumarez.
In 1821, following the death of Sir Peter de Havilland, he was appointed Bailiff, or chief magistrate, of the island, and soon after was again despatched to London, to protest, which he did with success, against the extension to Guernsey of the new law prohibiting the import of corn until the price should reach 80s. a quarter.
In 1827, Brock said that "To bring about the improvements which are to the joy, the health, and the well-being of the inhabitants, the States (of Guernsey) have issued notes amounting to £55,000." In 1815 Guernsey had had no roads, there was danger of the sea overflowing large tracts of land, there was little or no trade, little or no disposable revenue and no prospect of employment for the poor.
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Daniel de Lisle Brock
Daniel de Lisle Brock (1762–1842) was Bailiff of Guernsey from 1821 until his death 1842.
The Brocks were an English family who had been established in Guernsey since the sixteenth century. Daniel was a nephew of William Brock (1725–1768), of Brockhurst, St Peter Port (now owned by the National Trust of Guernsey), who was married to Judith de Beauvoir; and Henry Brock, who was married to Susan, sister of Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez. Daniel was one of fourteen children, ten of whom attained maturity. He was an elder brother of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock.
After such schooling as the island afforded in those days, he was placed at Alderney to learn French under the tuition of M. Vallat, a Swiss pastor, afterwards rector of St. Peter-in-the-Wood, Guernsey, and subsequently at a school at Richmond, Surrey.
He was, however, taken away at the age of fourteen to accompany his father, who was in failing health, to France, where the latter died at Dinan. He spent about twelve months in visiting the Mediterranean, Switzerland, and France, in 1785-6,
Twelve years later, in 1798, at the age of 36, he was elected a Jurat of the royal court of Guernsey, from which time his name is intimately associated with the history of his native place and its independence from England.
On four separate occasions, between 1804 and 1810, he was deputed by the states and Royal Court of Guernsey to represent them in London, in respect of certain measures affecting the trade and ancient privileges of the island. The third occasion was to defend against the Royal Navy trying to impress island men, this was argued in opposition to his brother-in-law, Admiral James Saumarez.
In 1821, following the death of Sir Peter de Havilland, he was appointed Bailiff, or chief magistrate, of the island, and soon after was again despatched to London, to protest, which he did with success, against the extension to Guernsey of the new law prohibiting the import of corn until the price should reach 80s. a quarter.
In 1827, Brock said that "To bring about the improvements which are to the joy, the health, and the well-being of the inhabitants, the States (of Guernsey) have issued notes amounting to £55,000." In 1815 Guernsey had had no roads, there was danger of the sea overflowing large tracts of land, there was little or no trade, little or no disposable revenue and no prospect of employment for the poor.