George Mildmay DARE [1448]

  General Notes:

George in a short history of his Dare family describes himself: I, George Mildmay Dare, the eldest son went to Japan in 1864, and after my father's death my mother and my brothers and sisters joined me there.

His hobbies as described in Sir George Julius's notes were sailing and collecting orchids.

England BDM Birth 1840 2nd Qtr Camberwell George Mildmay Julius IV 54

Baptism.
S Giles Camberwell Southwark LON born 18 Mar 1840; Bap. 19 Jun 1840 George Mildmay Dare son of George Julius Dare Master Mariner & Sarah Shrieve Dare of Elm Grove Peckham by HWC Hyde Curate.

George Mildmay Dare
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1840
Baptism Date: 19 Jun 1840
Baptism Place: Saint Giles,Camberwell,London,England
Father: George Julius Dare
Mother: Sarah Shreeve
FHL Film Number: 0254571-0254577

England BDM Marriage 1877 2nd Qtr George Mildmay Dare Knaresbrough YKS 9a 175

Marriage
George Mildmay Dare
Registration Year: 1877
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Knaresborough
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9a
Page: 175
Records on Page:
Name
George Mildmay Dare
Annie Dorothea C Earnshaw

George's home "The Lake" is described in an article in the Straights Times as "Deep in the heart of MacRitchie Reservoir Park once stood a lakehouse built in the 1890s and owned by Briton George Mildmay Dare, a former secretary of the Singapore Cricket Club. Both Mr Dare and prominent local merchant Seah Eu Chin were among the first to own land at what was then known as the Impounding Reservoir, or Thomson Reservoir. The colonial government later acquired the privately owned land to widen the reservoir.
What remains today are two stone markers inscribed with the words "Dare" in English and "Seah Chin Hin" in Chinese for Mr Seah's plantation, as well as the stone and brick foundations of Mr Dare's former home. This account of the area's early occupants and how land use there evolved, was pieced together in July by tomb-hunting brothers Charles and Raymond Goh, after they began studying the markers and land ownership records."
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/unearthing-history-of-early-spore-occupants

Tigers Roamed Singapore in the mid-50s.
Historical Corner by Donald Davies.
On December 15, 1907 old timer G. M. Dare passed away and was the first person to be buried in the new Bidadara Cemetery. Prior to this, Bukit Timah Road cemetery was the main place of burial. G. M. Dare took an active part in the social and sporting life of the Colony. He kept a diary and left behind an entertaining and informative collection of material relating to the early days of Singapore.
George Mildmay Dare was born at sea in 1840. He was brought to Singapore in his father's barque, Marsden, in the year 1841. The father, Captain George Julius Dare, continued his voyage to China and Mrs Dare remained behind in Singapore to await the arrival of a second son John Julius Dare.

On Christmas day 1841, Mrs Dare set off again, this time on board the ship Viscount Melbourne to rejoin her husband in China. On New Year's day the ship was wrecked on the Laconia Shoal and the crew and passengers escaped in the long boats. Then they were attacked by Illanun pirates from whom they got away by cutting the rope and escaping in the dead of night, and reached Singapore after 13 days at sea in an open boat.
Dr Little of the John Little family, helped Mrs Dare out of the boat with the youngest child in her arms apparently dead. Dr Little, however was able to resuscitate him. But George Mildmay was quite lively, having eaten all the bananas while hidden under the sail at the bottom of the boat. In 1845 the family returned to England on leave and the two boys remained behind to be educated at Cheltenham.
George Mildmay's next appearance in Singapore was in March 1854. He had grown so tremendously on the six months voyage out that his clothes no longer fitted him, and he landed in a suit of sailcloth made by the sailors on board.
Captain G. J. Dare lived in a house on the corner of Beach Road, now part of Raffles Hotel property. In those days, Beach Road was Singapore's principal residential quarter and the houses stood well back in the large gardens. A sandy beach ran down to the sea from the road in front. G. M. Dare joined the commercial firm of Syme and Co. with whom he remained for five years. In October 1857 he joined the ranks of the Singapore Amateur Actors and in December he wrote: "Since last writing I have joined the Corps Dramatique, which consists of gentleman amateurs: young men like myself in business. I came out as Lucy in the farce, John Dobbs, under the name of Miss Flora Macfungus, which has since been changed at my request to Miss Brani, the Malay for Dare. It was a difficult part, but they say I performed it to everyone's satisfaction and made what they called a stunning girl. There are a great many tigers about at present; a lady, Mrs Bernard, when driving out with her husband to a grant of land which he had recently bought, was within 100 yards of an immense brute only 2 miles from town.
Deaths from tigers became so frequent in the middle 50s in Singapore that the price for killing a tiger was raised from $50 to $100 and there was constant agitation for a further increase to encourage hunters to go out after them. Large pits and traps where rigged up outside the town-ship, but of little avail the large mortality is still continued." The contention in the press at the time that an average of one death a day occurred as a result of attack by tigers was frequently corroborated by responsible persons. It wasn't easy to gage the exact numbers however as the inland pepper and gambier planters in the jungle were loath to report any death by tigers for fear that it would frighten off their labour. In the Kranji district in 1852, no less than 10 persons were killed by tigers in the course of two days.
In 1858 G. M. Dare became secretary of the Cricket Club and joined the Volunteer Rifles Corps as a private. After a period in China, he returned to Singapore again where he resided until his death in 1907.
His wife a talented musician and singer, became Singapore's first lady motorist. The Malays in the Federated Malay States used to call her car the "devil wind carriage"
Ref: The Straits Times, 23 December 1956, Page 12. http://newspapers.nl.sg/

THE LATE MR GEORGE MILDMAY DARE
The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Adviser (1884-1942) 16 December 1907, page 5.
It is with deep regret that a large number of European community here, as well as numerous friends in Japan, will learn that Mr. George Mildmay Dare¹, one of the oldest residents of Singapore, and connected with this place from his early infancy, died yesterday morning at his residence, "The Lake", at five minutes to nine o'clock, after a long and exhausting illness. Of a strong constitution and fond of energetic exercise all his life, it was not until at Christmas, 1901, that an attack of partial paralysis laid him aside from the active pursuits he so much enjoyed, although for a time he still continued to take short harbour cruises in his yacht. On the occasion of his last health trip home to Europe, while staying at Monte Carlo serious heart trouble declared itself, and as a result Mr. Dare had to abandon any occupation that would cause even the slightest exertion or excitement. Since then, with some brief hopeful intervals, his strength gradually failed until the end.
Born at Peckham on March 22, 1840, the late George Dare was a son of George Julius Dare², commander of the ship Medwas, trading to the Far East. He came out from England round the Cape in 1841, as a young child of just over a year old, in his father's ship, his mother, Mrs. Dare, who was a Miss Parks of Cape Town, being also on board. The ship proceeded to Bombay, Calcutta, and Singapore, Mrs. Dare remaining here to await the birth of her second child, and Capt. Dare proceeding with the ship to Whampoa. After the birth of Julius Dare, Mrs. Dare and her children took passage in the East Indiaman "Viscount Melbourne" for Whampoa to join Capt. Dare. Unfortunately the ship was wrecked on the Lauconia Shoal in the Palawan Passage, and the passengers and crew had to take to their boats and make for Singapore. Mrs. Dare and her two children were in the Capt.'s boat which was the first to reach Singapore. An exciting incident occurred during the fortnight they were in an open boat. Off the Borneo Post they were overhauled by two large boats full of Lanun pirates, and Mrs. Dare and the two little ones were concealed beneath a sail in the bottom of the boat. Seeing the genuine distressed condition of the crew, the Pirates did no harm to them and sheared off, the boat continuing its voyage to the Singapore Straits. Messrs. A. L. Johnston's godown then stood near the river where the Master Attendant's older office now stands, and it was from the veranda of that godown that Mr. W.H. Read, who is still alive at a venerable age, described the boat approaching the mouth of the river. On arrival at the Master Attendant steps Dr. Little helped Mrs. Dare and infant to land, while Mr. W.H. Reid carried young George out of the boat.
The Dare family resided here for years thereafter, the boys being taken home to England for education at Brecon and at Cheltenham. When about 15 years of age, George Dare returned to Singapore and presently joined the firm of Syme and Co. After five years there, he had two years experience of business in Bangkok, when he proceeded to Hongkong, being at once given an appointment in Rusden Phipps and Co. Foochow. Some time afterwards Mr. Dare began his long connection with Japan by joining the well-known firm of Glover³ in Nagasaki, subsequently becoming a partner in the firm of McDonald and Dare, brokers, Yokohama, doing a large business also in silk.
The main part of Mr. George Dare's business career was associated with Japan, where in Yokohama, he spent altogether eighteen years, and was during that time a prominent and popular member of the European community there. It was there that he lost brother Julius⁴ and his mother⁵ within two or three days of each other, of cholera. Julius Dare was a great athlete, and a brilliant horsemen, and his sudden death was a shock to the various clubs in which he was a member. Capt. Dare⁶ who'd been in business for years in Singapore had died long before that, and Mr. George Dare looked after his sisters until their marriage. One of these is Mrs. W.R. Scott⁷, formerly of Singapore, another is Lady Jackson⁸, wife of Sir Thomas Jackson, lately manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, a third is Mrs. Whitworth Alan⁹ formerly of Penang, a fourth is Mrs. Hartigan¹⁰ wife of Dr. Hartigan formerly of Hong Kong, and another is Mrs. Abell¹¹ of Kobe, who passed through Singapore a few days ago and spent a short time with her invalid brother.
While on a visit to England Mr. George Dare, in June 1877, married Miss Earnshaw¹² of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, Mr. and Mrs. Dare subsequently spending some years in Japan. About 1885 Mr. Dare retired from business in Japan returning to England, and then coming out again to Singapore and finally settling down here in the scenes of his early boyhood. He resided first at Carrington House, Mount Sophia, then at Abbotsford, and then for number of years past at "The Lake", his own property on the banks of the Impounding Reservoir. It was owing to chronic asthma of long standing that his wintering and Singapore was necessary, but the alternate summers were invariably spent in trips to Europe and Japan, thus enabling Mr. and Mrs. Dare to maintain constant touch with many old friends both in England and in Japan.
Though Mr. Dare took an active part in public life he was a keen observer of all that went on in local or general politics. He was happy in the multiplicity of his pursuits, and his love of open air at life. Both in Japan and here he devoted much time to yachting, and he was up till his death a member of the Corinthian yacht club. He made several cycling tours through the Malay Peninsula, accompanied for the most part by Mrs. Dare, and it was only his illness that compelled him to abandon motoring.
Sketching, photography and the organ were all pleasant occupations. In his younger days Mr. Dare was an active and frequent participator in local theatricals, and for many years he assisted Mr. Buckley in the annual Children's Treats in scene painting and otherwise. And at "The Lake" there were many pleasant social evenings with intimate friends.
There will be on the part of the many friends of Mr. Mrs. Dare and Singapore the deepest sympathy with Mrs. Dare in her great loss.
The funeral was arranged to take place at the new Cemetery at Bidadari¹³, by the express repeated wish of the late Mr. Dare. It is the very first internment there, as officially the present cemetery in Bukit Timah Road is not closed, until the end of the year.
In accordance with the often expressed desires of the late Mr. Dare the interment of his remains took place yesterday afternoon at 5 PM at Bidadari, New Cemetery, the very first internment in that place. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. F.G. Swindell, Colonial Chaplain. Those present included Mrs. G.M. Dare, Mr. Geoffrey Dare¹⁴, nephew of the deceased, the Honourable John Anderson, the Honourable T.S. Baker, and Messrs. C.B. Buckley, A Gentle, F.M. Elliott, E.C. Ellis, W.G.S. Clair, A. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Banks, Mrs. Howard Newton, Miss Martin, W.E. Cooper, C. Crane, L. Dunman, Capt. Burton R.G.A, T.O. Mahew.
The afternoon which had been threatening fortunately cleared. There would have been a very large gathering, but that was rendered impossible by the difficulty of notification on a Sunday, and also because it could not at once be decided where the interment was to take place.
Sincere sympathy will be felt with Mr. Alfred Dare¹⁵ of Kobe the surviving brother of deceased and also with the surviving sisters.

¹ George Mildmay DARE. He was born March 18, 1840 in Peckham, England (a district in South London) and married Annie Dorothea Caroline EARNSHAW of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, on June 1877 in England. He was a brother-in-law of Sir Thomas JACKSON of HSBC.
² George Julius DARE (1807-1856),
³ Thomas Blake GLOVER <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blake_Glover> Glover was alleged to be the first non-Japanese to receive the Order of the Rising Sun SEE: <http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/blfamglover.htm> , but David JACKSON, younger brother of ir Thomas JACKSON received one 5 years earlier.
⁴ John Julius DARE died September 5, 1879
⁵ Sarah Shrieve DARE nee PARKE died September 10, 1879
⁶ George Julius DARE (1807-1856), father of George Mildmay DARE.
⁷ Blanche Emily DARE wife of William Ramsay SCOTT.
⁸ Amelia Lydia DARE
⁹ Anna Maria DARE, wife of Whitworth ALLEN
¹⁰ Florence Gertrude DARE, wife of Dr. William HARTIGAN, physician for HSBC amongst other responsibilities.
¹¹ Sarah Elizabeth DARE, wife of John Catto ABELL.
¹² Annie Dorothea Caroline EARNSHAW of Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, daughter of Edward EARNSHAW & Caroline Sophie DEACON.
¹³<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidadari_Cemetery> Interestingly, Augustine Podmore Williams, the sailor that Conrad based Lord Jim on was also buried here.
¹⁴ This was probably Geoffrey St. Felix DARE, son of George Julius DARE and Edith Mary DIXY.
¹⁵ Alfred Henry DARE (1853-1924). He was a junior at HSBC Yokohama in 1878 - recruited in the East.
The last junior to be recruited in the East was A.H. Dare, a relative of Thomas Jackson's wife, and his entire career (with the exception of a year in Amoy in 1883) was spent in Japan, although he received leave to England and was on the Eastern, not the "Local British Staff". He resigned in 1893; the Court subsequently learned that the reason had been health and consequently voted him a gratuity of 1,000 pounds. SOURCE: History of Hongkong Shanghai Bank, Frank H.H. King p232
Ref The Silver Bowl & http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19071216.2.28.aspx

  Research Notes:

Many of these tales are unproven family lore:

COPY OF NOTES WRITTEN BY GEORGE MILDMAY DARE¹sup> (WHO DIED IN SINGAPORE IN 1907)
The Dares of Ares
Originally belonged to the noblesse of France. My Great Great-grandfather William Dare2, fled to England with 40,000 immigrants in the year 1685, when the Edict of Nantes's was revoked and the dreadful persecutions against the Hugenots ensued. Our ancestors brought their monies with them and settled and became one of the leading county families in Dorsetshire. My great grandfather, Thomas Dare, born 1733, married about 1759 or 1760 a Miss. Ross³, niece of the late Duke of Bedford⁴. (The late Earl Russell⁵ and my Great Grandfather, Thomas Dare, were married on the same day and at the same church.) On the birth of my Grandfather (third son of the foregoing marriage) the late Duke⁶ stood sponsor and gave him the delectable name of Phocian.⁷ In those days politics ran very high, our people were high Tories and the Dukes were red-hot Whigs. This alone severed the connexion and so matters have remained to this day. My grandfather Phocian Dare, had no profession and resided on his estate, Woodford Park, near Weymouth in Dorsetshire. He married in 1784, Louisa Caroline Julius⁸, by whom he had a family of three sons and three daughters. My father was the second son, George Julius Dare⁹. He was in the Royal Navy but resigned and became the owner of a sailing ship, the "John Bagshaw"¹⁰ (of course having been in command of other people's vessels previously for many years). He married Sarah Shrieve Parke¹¹ at the Cape, and after making many voyages they finally settled in Singapore. I, George Mildmay, the eldest son, went to Japan in 1864, and after the death of my father, my mother and all my brothers and sisters join me there. My uncle, John Julius Dare, eldest son of Phocian Dare, and his family settled in the West Indies. I now come to my grandmother's side, the Julius. My grandmother, Louisa Caroline Julius, was a sister of the late Dr. Charles Julius, M.D.,¹² of the Palace Richmond¹³. (It was he who brought the late Duke of Cambridge¹⁴ into the world.) My grandmother was a daughter of the late William Julius¹⁵, a considerable landed proprietor (Mansion and Killiekrankie Estates) in the island of St. Christopher or St. Kitts, West Indies. His brother John Julius, was then the governor of the same island, and my Grandmothers uncle, William Hamilton¹⁶, was the Attorney General. My great grandfather, William Julius¹⁷, was considered one of the proudest and most extravagant men in England. He never drove out without his four horses and outriders and live fully up to his income which was L30,000 per annum. He married an equally proud Welsh lady, a Miss Edwards¹⁸, first cousin of the late Sir Charles Morgan¹⁹ of Tredegar Park, whose son was afterwards Lord Tredegar. My grandmother's uncle, the late William Hamilton (before alluded to) married Lady Isabel Erskine²⁰ and resided Osborne (one of Queen Victoria's residences). My grandmother's first cousin, Mrs. Nesbitt²¹, lived at Nevis, an island in the West Indies, where Lord Nelson, then Capt. Royal Navy after making my grandmother an offer of marriage and receiving refusal from her (Louisa Caroline Julius²²), married Mrs. Nesbitt then a widow, my grandmother acting as one of her bridesmaids. King William the fourth, then Duke of Clarence, who was then with the fleet anchored at Nevis, gave the bride away. There is a monument to our Grand Uncle (Grandfather (?)) William Julius in Westminster Abby²³. Near this place lies the body of . . . . . [Captain William Julius²⁴ late Commander of His Majesty's Ship "Colchester" who departed this life 3rd October 1698 aged 33 years²⁵."
¹ George Mildmay DARE (1840-1907)
² Aka Guillaume de Ayres. It seems that he may have landed in England in 1685.
³ I know nothing more about "Miss ROSS".
⁴ NOTE: I am not sure which Earl of Bedford this might be.
⁵ NOTE: This does not line up Francis RUSSELL, son of John RUSSELL (1710-1771), and the 4^th Duke of Beford married in 1764 while Thomas DARE married in 1759. Nor does it line up with his father, who married twice, but much earlier.
⁶ Presumably, this is Lt. Gen John RUSSELL (1710-1771) 4^th Duke of Bedford.
⁷ Phocian DARE ( 1763-1834)
⁸ Louisa Caroline JULIUS (1764-1845), daughter of William JULIUS and Jane Smith EDWARDS.
⁹ George Julius DARE ( 1807-1856) was not only the second son, but also the youngest child of six.
¹⁰ A brig of 260 tons built in Essex in 1842. SOURCE: The Essex Review.
¹¹ Sarah Shrieve PARKE, daughter of William Tollemach PARKE & Elizabeth BUSHE.
¹² Dr. Charles Julius, M.D., A confusion arises here. There are two brothers, Charles Smith JULIUS b 1765 and George Charles JULIUS b 1775. The latter is referred to as a doctor in Louisa Caroline DARE's will. Amy Oliver LLOYD's notes say: He lived at the Old Palace Richmond and was physician to George IV. Before living at Richmond he served in India. This fits with an email from Judy Whittaker in 2001: I know that after George Julius and his wife Isabella Gilder were married they travelled to India.Five of their children were born there.They returned to England in 1810 and settled in Bristol and in 1814 they moved to the Old Palace,Richmond where they lived for 41 years. They retired to St Leonards where at Maze Hill House they died. George at the age of 91 in the year 1866 and Isabella in 1867 in her 93rd year. They were buried in the churchyard at Hollington.
¹³ Palace Richmond \endash see: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Palace>
¹⁴ If this story is true, then it would have to be the 2^nd Duke of Cambridge, who was born in Hanover Germany in 1819. The 1^st Duke of Cambridge was born 1774, so it couldn't be him. Depending on which Charles Julius is the correct one, the future Dr. Charles Julius would have been only nine years old at the time, or else about to be born himself at the time of the birth of the 1^st Duke of Cambridge.
¹⁵ William JULIUS (1726-1780)
¹⁶ William HAMILTON. A William Hamilton was the English Deputy Governor of St. Christopher 1704-1706. SO far, I have found no mention of a John JULIUS. SOURCE: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_heads_of_Saint_Christopher> ¹⁷William JULIUS (1726-1780)
¹⁸ Jane Smith EDWARDS
¹⁹ Sir Charles MORGAN (1760-1846)
²⁰ Lady Isabel ERSKINE
²¹ Mrs Frances "Fanny" NESBITT (1761-4 May 1831),born Frances Herbert WOOLWARD daughter of Mary HERBERT and William WOOLWARD (d 1779), a senior judge at Nevis. She was a young widow of Dr. Josiah NESBET (he died c 1781) who was from a Nevis plantation family. After his death, she was helped by her uncle John HERBERT of Montpellier. She married NELSON at Montpelier Estate on the Island of Nexis on 11 March 1787. The marriage was registered at Fig Tree Church, St, John's Parish, Nevis. She had been orphaned at a young age. There is a lot of detail on her at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Nisbet> I do not know how she fits in as a cousin, but William HAMILTON may be the link. <http://www.twogreens.co.uk/wakeup/people/frances.htm>
²² Louisa Caroline JULIUS (1764-1845) married Phocian DARE.
²³ It is in the north aisle of the Nave. There is a description that matches this at: <http://www.agbfinebooks.com/Publications/Memorials/Naval%20Memorials%20in%20London.htm>
²⁴ William JULIUS (1665-1698) married an unnamed HAMILTON. He was the great-great grandfather of George Mildmay DARE. NOTE: It is likely that there is another generation to be inserted between the two, since the William JULIUS that I have as his son is born in 1726 \endash a generation after the first William JULIUS' death. More work is needed here.
²⁵ NOTE: This was cropped from the copy of his notes, but was found in the version compiled by Amy Oliver LLOYD, his niece. SEE: Amy LLOYD's history - part 3 <http://www.thesilverbowl.com/documents/Amy_Lloyd_History_p3.htm>
Ref: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/history/DARE-GeorgeM-Notes.html

Death Ref: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=silverbowl&id=I6675

George married Annie Dorothea Caroline EARNSHAW [1449] [MRIN: 459], daughter of Edward EARNSHAW [11092] and Caroline Sophia DEACON [11093], 2nd Qtr 1877 in Yorkshire. (Annie Dorothea Caroline EARNSHAW [1449] was born on 23 Jan 1857 in Brixton SRY, baptised on 27 Mar 1857 in St Barnabas Sth Lambeth LND and died on 28 Jan 1927 in Singapore.)