Geoffrey Acland

Arthur Geoffrey Dyke Acland (17 May 1908 – 14 September 1964), known as Geoffrey Acland, was a British Liberal Party politician.

Born near Hanover Square in London to Liberal Party MP Francis Dyke Acland and Eleanor Margaret Cropper, Geoffrey was the younger brother of Richard Acland, who later became a Common Wealth Party and Labour Party MP. He studied at Rugby School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Grenoble. During the Second World War, he served with the Border Regiment, rising to become a Captain.

After the war, Acland became joint managing director of Cropper's paper mills in Burneside, near Kendal, Acland married Winifred Julian Dorothy Fothergill in 1932, and they were the parents of six children.