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David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (18 December 1808 – 1 July 1851), also known as D. O. Dyce Sombre and David Dyce Sombre, was an Anglo-Indian held to be the first person of Asian descent to be elected to the British Parliament. He was elected to represent the Sudbury constituency in July 1841, but was removed in April 1842 due to bribery in the election process. ==Background== Sombre was great-grandson of a mercenary soldier Walter Reinhardt alias Sombre (c. 1725 – 1778), whose second wife was the famous Begum Samru (c. 1753–1836) who made her step-grandson George Sombre, and then his son Dyce Sombre her heirs. Walter Reinhard(t) Sombre (d. 4 May 1778, bur Agra) had a son, named Zafar Yab Khan (1764–1799/1803; died of cholera〔()〕) alias Zafaryab Khan, by his first wife, Badi Bibi, whose identity is not known. His name was changed to "Walter Balthazzar Reinhardt" or perhaps to "Aloysius Balthazzar Reinhardt" at the time of baptism in 1781; according to a biography of his grandson, he was called Aloysius Reinhardt. He died in 1803 due to cholera. The son had married Julia Anne alias Juliana/Mme Reybaud/Bhai Begam (1770–1815), the daughter of Capt. Le Fevre, and had one son Aloysius Reinhardt (d young; bur in the Akbar Church of Agra) and one daughter named Julia Anne (1787 or (November 1789 )〔-1820). Julia Anne Reinhardt, or Juliana Reinhardt married in 1803 one George Alexander Dyce (d. April 1838, bur Fort William, Calcutta),〔("Mr. Dyce Sombre's refutation of the charge of lunacy brought against him in..", p. 159 )〕 illegitimate half caste son of a Major General Dyce, and had many children, of whom four children are mentioned in subsequent papers and histories.〔Oxford DNB 18 December 2006 daily entry gives the daughters' names and dates as Anna May (1812–1867) and Georgiana (1815–1867) (archived version on a mailing list )〕 # Georgiana (b 2 September 1807; alternatively 1815–1867) who married an Italian mercenary soldier Paolo Solaroli (1796–1878), born into a humble family from Novara, Piedmont. He then joined the Sardinian army, was ennobled in the 1840s by Carlo Alberto of Sardinia, became Baron by 1864, and was elevated to the title of Marchese di Briona in 1867 by Vittorio Emmanuele II, and later became a diplomat. He left an enormous estate at his death, and had descendants. His castle was acquired in 1864.〔()〕 In the 1840s, he was styled Baron Paolo Solaroli, but was referred to by his sister-in-law and her lawyers as Peter Solaroli. # David Ochterlony (b 18 December 1808), the subject of this entry, # George Archibald (b 1 August 1810,died within a year), and # Anna Maria (b 24 December 1813) who married John Rose Troup, a former East India Company general. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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