David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre

David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (18 December 1808 – 1 July 1851), also known as D. O. Dyce Sombre and David Dyce Sombre, was an Anglo-Indian held to be the first person of Asian descent to be elected to the British Parliament. He was elected to represent the Sudbury constituency in July 1841, but was removed in April 1842 due to bribery in the election process. He was named after the British Resident at Delhi, David Ochterlony

David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre was great-grandson of a mercenary soldier Walter Reinhardt Sombre (c. 1725 – 1778), whose second wife was the famous Begum Samru (c. 1753–1836), who made her step-grandson George Sombre, and then his son Dyce Sombre, her heirs. Walter Reinhard(t) Sombre had had a son, Zafar Yab Khan (born 1764, died of cholera in 1799), by his first wife. She is known only as Badi Bibi ("senior wife"). The son's name was changed to "Walter Balthazzar Reinhardt" or (according to a biography of his grandson) "Aloysius Balthazzar Reinhardt" at the time of baptism in 1781.

The son married Julia Anne (or Juliana) Le Fevre (1770–1815), daughter of a captain in the Begum's service. She was also known as Mme Reybaud and Bhai Begam. The couple had one son, Aloysius Reinhardt, who died young and is buried in the Akbar Church of Agra, and one daughter, Julia Anne (Juliana) (1787 or [19 November 1789]-1820). The younger Juliana married in 1803 one George Alexander Dyce (died April 1838, buried at Fort William, Calcutta), illegitimate half-caste (i.e. mixed-race, Anglo-Indian) son of a Major General Dyce. This couple had many children; four of them are mentioned in subsequent papers and histories.

Having become "family" by his marriage to the Begum's step-granddaughter, George Alexander Dyce was rapidly made commander of the Begam's army. He considered that he was entitled to the Begam's wealth through marriage to Reinhard(t)'s heir, and when Julia Anne died in 1820, began to help himself. George Alexander Dyce was an uncaring and unloving father. Therefore, he was removed but he continued to make a real nuisance of himself until his death. Among his other inequities, he instituted a civil suit against his own son and caused his arrest and subsequent release upon heavy bail.

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