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A fact from Barrington Dacres appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 February 2009, and was viewed approximately 313 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Britain's Dacres family produced an Admiral and First Naval Lord, Sydney, three vice-admirals, James Richard (pictured), Richard and James Richard, a naval Captain, Barrington, and a field marshal, Richard James?

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Notable?

Is Dacres actually notable? He doesn't seem to have done anything out of the ordinary. Even the section on his accidental loss of Bulldog spends more time explaining what happened after he'd lost her than on his command of her. Apart from that his service was incredibly mundane. It seems to me that the only reason this article exists is to provide another blue link for the Dacres family. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 09:16, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]