DELE PIERRE

Joseph Octave ( son of Joseph Dele pierre, receveur-général of province of West Flanders ). b. Bruges, Belgium 12 March 1802; ed. at Univ. of Ghent; an avocat; archiviste de la Flandre Occident ale, Bruges; came to London 1843; sec. of Belgian legation, Aug. 1849 to 1874; Belgian consul in London 1 Oct. 1849 to 14 April 1875; hon. sec. of the Philobiblon Society 1853, contributed 22 papers to its privately printed Miscellanies; hon. F.S.A. 1 May 1845; author of Heures de loisir, e ais poétiques 1829; Old Flanders, traditions and legends of Belgium 2 vols. 1845, and of 53 other books. d. 29 Upper Hamilton terrace, London 18 Aug. 1879. J. O. Dele pierre In memoriam, by N. Trubner 1880, portrait ; Le Livre, Paris, Jany. 1880 pp. 22–28, 291–92; R. Blakey’s Memoirs (1879) 208–12, 230, 239.