(d. 1776), 2nd. s. of Sir Peter Delmé of Rowdeford House, Wilts; Dilettanti 1736.
1734 Rome (by 23 Jan. - Mar.), Padua (13 Apr.), Venice ( - 30 Apr.), Turin (by 25 Jun.)
John Delmé travelled to Italy with Robert Bristow and a governor, and he was frequently in the company of Robert Dingley. All three were sons of prominent London merchants. Dingley was in Florence by January 1733, but Delm? and Bristow were first noticed in Rome on 23 January 1734.1 By 1 April they had gone to Venice, and Dingley left Rome that day.1 All three were in Padua on 13 April, the same day as John David Chavilliard, a Swiss, who may have been acting as governor to one of them.2 On 30 April Elizeus Burges at Venice reported that, amongst others, 'Mr Delme with his [governor], Mr Bristow, Mr Dingley & two brothers, whose names are Holbetch, [William and Hugh Holbech] are come hither lately from Rome, & are all bound home, some one way, some another'.3 On 25 June Bristow and Delm? were in Turin.1 In 1736 John Delmé, with his fellow travellers Dingley and Bristow, was elected to the Society of Dilettanti.
1. Pococke letters MSS, ff.3, 7, 19 (4 Feb., 1 Apr., 26 Jun. 1734). 2. Brown 1958 - 61. 3. SP 99/63, f.254.