Almost certainly David Dale, born in 1819 in Bengal. The 1881 census shows him living at West Lodge, Woodlands Road, Darlington, Durham, and gives his profession as 'colliery owner'. A close associate of the industrialist Sir Alfred Edward Pease, he was was created 1st Baronet Dale. On 2 August 1888 he married his second wife, Alice Frederica Milbank (1855-1902), daughter of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank. He died on 28 April 1906.