Oliver De Lancey

(1749 c.-1822)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: De Lancey, Oliver, 1752-1822 NRA: Lancey Oliver De (1749-1822) MP General DNB: Lancey, Oliver De (c.1749–1822), army officer and politician in America LBT ID: OlDelan1822 VIAF ID: 9776979 LOC ID: nr2001049254	B/BAP: 1749 DIED: 1822-09-03
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Born in New York, he served as a British military officer in the American Revolution, and afterwards as Barrack-master General, a position from which he was removed in 1804 for inaccuracy in his accounts. He was MP for Maidstone (1796-1802).
REFERENCES TO Oliver De Lancey: Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 13 April 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Holland to Eleanor Creevey, 1 January 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. II: 1805 Ch XI: 1815-16