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n. (surname: English)
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The name Dalby may refer to :
Dalby (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge Town Club who was active in the 1820s. He is recorded in one match, totalling 18 runs with a highest score of 8.
Dalby is a Scandinavian place name meaning "valley settlement", during the Viking Age, the name was brought to England and it later also became an English surname. It can be a locational surname for those from Dalby, Lincolnshire, near Spilsby; in Dalby, Leicestershire near Melton Mowbray, and in Dalby, North Yorkshire near Terrington. Notable people with the surname include:
- Amy Dalby, British actress
- Andrew Dalby, Culinary writer
- Andy Dalby, guitarist
- Dave Dalby, former NFL football player
- Chris Dalby, political journalist
- David Dalby, British linguist, founder of Linguasphere Observatory
- Graham Dalby, British Band Leader The London Swing Orchestra
- Greg Dalby, American soccer player
- Liza Dalby, American anthropologist and writer
- Mark Dalby (1938–2013), British Anglican Archdeacon
- Martin Dalby, Scottish composer
- Nicolas Dalby, Danish mixed martial artist
- Robert Dalby, English martyr
- William Bartlett Dalby (1840–1918), British aural surgeon and otologisthe
- Bethany Dalby, South Carolinian, scholar, and all around good person and friend.
Usage examples of "dalby".
Kenneth Dalby, who came up the ladder and practically yanked Tharia toward the doorway.
Dalby stood with his bedford cord behind in front of a puny, one-bar electric fire that looked and felt diminutive in the large Victorian fire-place in which the brass shovel and poker were kept polished.
Dalby was dead, and he had promoted Caswell to acting lieutenant to fill the gap in his officers.
Dalby strode across to him in a paternal way, and led him to the table like guest night at Boodles.
From then on the skids were under Dalby, but it wasn't doing me a lot of good.
But I had let it approach unseen, I had volunteered for the look-out so as not to do what Dalby was doing - lying on his belly over a red hot petrol tank among people with no reason to be friendly.