Ashton Wentworth Dilke
Ashton Wentworth Dilke | |
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 Image published on page 421 of "The Illustrated London News", 1 May 1880. | |
| Born | 11 August 1850 London, England |
| Died | 12 March 1883 (aged 32) Algiers, French Algeria |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Sir Fisher Wentworth Dilke, 4th Baronet Clement Wentworth Dilke Sibille Mary Wentworth Dilke |
| Parents | Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet και Mary Chatfield |
| Relatives | Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet (brother) Charles Wentworth Dilke (grandfather) |
Ashton Wentworth Dilke (11 August 1850 – 12 March 1883) was an editor, British traveller and radical Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1883.[1]
Life
Dilke was the younger son of
In 1875, he bought the Weekly Dispatch for £14,000, acting as editor until 1876 and then again between 1878 and 1880. In 1878 he published a translation of Ivan Turgenev's Virgin Soil.
On 10 April 1876 he married Margaret Smith,[5] eldest daughter of Thomas Eustace Smith,[6] with whom he had two sons and a daughter. In 1880 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but his ill-health led him to resign in February 1883, spending the last few months of his life in Algiers, where he died in March aged 32 years. His wife went on to be a leading suffragist and she was a witness called during Ashton's brother's divorce.[5]
References
- ^ "Ashton Wentworth Dilke". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ "Sir Charles Dilke, 1st baronet". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ "Dilke, Ashton Wentworth (DLK868AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Oxford DNB: Dilke, Ashton Wentworth
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- ^ Roy Jenkins, Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy (1996), p. 112.