Talk:Oliver De Lancey (British Army officer, died 1822)

Title dispute

I assume the dispute is that underway at User talk:Necrothesp#DeLancey? I'm with Necrothesp. The Gazette is good evidence of contemporary usage, and whilst User:BradMajors refers to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography in support of his argument, so far as I can see that does not refer directly to Oliver, only to his uncle James, who does indeed see to have spelled the name as DeLancey. It seems that for whatever reason the borthers Oliver (senior) and James adopted different representations of the name, as outlined in the first para of the ODNB article, from which it would appear that it is James thtchanged form previous usage. Clearly the issue of whether Oliver junior should be regarded as American or British is particularly tricky, but he was educated in Britain, and spent his life in the service of the Crown, and was indeed a member of the British House of Commons. David Underdown (talk) 13:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Further, there is actually evidence of even James using the De Lancey variant, it's given in the DCB and again in contemporary gazettes such as http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=9928&geotype=London&gpn=1&type=ArchivedIssuePage&all=&exact=de%20lancey&atleast=&similar= —Preceding unsigned comment added by David Underdown (talk • contribs) 14:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

• I have opened the discussion at Talk: Oliver De Lancey Sr.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BradMajors (talk • contribs) 14:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Please see Talk:Oliver De Lancey, Sr.#Disambiguation -- PBS (talk) 01:32, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Portrait

The uniform in the portrait is late 1770s-early 1780s, the sitter clearly a middle-aged man. Embroidered epaulettes of a General, paired buttons of a Major General. My suspicion is it's Oliver snr, not Oliver jnr. Anyone else any further information on it, please? ˜˜˜˜ Silverwhistle (talk) 09:45, 8 November 2022 (UTC)