400 LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., R.A. 
1860, married in 1827, Mary Frederica, eldest daughter of Edward 
Law, Lord Chief-Justice, first Lord Hllenborough, by whom he had 
three sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Edward Eldon,! entered 
the Royal Artillery. The second, Henry Hllenborough, entered the 
Madras cavalry. The youngest, Douglas, became Adjutant 23rd 
Fusiliers, and was mortally wounded at the attack on the Redan on 
18th June, 1855. 
His daughter is the present Miss Dyneley through whose instru- 
mentality, together with that of her cousin, Miss Baynes, the following 
correspondence has been brought to light. 
1 Captain EH. H. R. Dyneley (Kane’s List, No. 2092) served at the Cape of Good Hope and 
saw much rough work against the Boers. He was present with two 6-pounder guns when they were 
defeated by the force under Lieut.-General Sir Harry Smith in August 1848 at the battle of 
Boompaatz, during which operation the troops marched between 1000 and 1200 miles. 
Dyneley went to the Crimea in 1855 as 2nd Captain of ‘A.’ troop. At the conclusion of the 
war, during the voyage home, the transport in which the troop was embarked took fire, and the 
danger was imminent, the conflagration being adjacent to the magazine. Lt.-Colonel Lysons, 23rd 
Fusiliers (now Sir Daniel), who was on board, in talking of Victoria Cross incidents in later days, 
said, ‘‘ that the finest thing he ever witnessed was when (Tom) Dyneley led the way down to the 
hold of the burning transport, and directed the removal of the charred and burning ammunition 
boxes and handed them up to the deck himself.”’ 
Captain Dyneley went in command of ‘J’ battery, R.A., to India during the mutiny in 1857 
He died of fever at Calcutta, May 4th, 1858, deeply regretted by his brother officers. 
