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Ralph Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre was an English noble and clergyman. He was the third son of Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre and his wife Margaret de Multon, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland, with two older brothers and one younger brother (Hugh). He would become the second of three of the brothers to succeed to the title of Baron Dacre.
References
- A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance, (1831). John Burke, Esq. page 379
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