Wentworth Dilke
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1st baronet | |
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| Born | 18 February 1810 |
| Died | 10 May 1869 (aged 59) London, England |
| Education | Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Politician Writer Journalist |
| Known for | Member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom The Athenaeum |
| Spouse | Mary Chattfield (1840–1853) |
| Children | Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet Ashton Wentworth Dilke Mildred Dilke |
| Parent(s) | Charles Wentworth Dilke and Maria Dove Walker |
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (18 February 1810 – 10 May 1869), was an English art patron, horticulturalist and
Background and education
Dilke was born in London,
Public life
Dilke assisted his father in his literary work, and was for some years chairman of the council of the
Dilke was appointed one of the five royal commissioners for the
Family
Dilke married Mary Chatfield, daughter of William Chatfield, in 1840. She died in September 1853. Dilke was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Charles, whose promising political career was destroyed by a well-publicised divorce case in the 1880s. Dilke's younger son Ashton Wentworth Dilke was also a politician.[2]
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Honours
In 1871, English botanist Maxwell T. Masters published a genus of plants from tropical South America called Dilkea after Wentworth Dilke.[7][8]
References
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm, 1911
- ^ a b thepeerage.com Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Bt.
- ^ "Dilke, Charles Wentworth (DLK827CW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "No. 22590". The London Gazette. 17 January 1862. p. 275.
- ^ "No. 22996". The London Gazette. 1 August 1865. p. 3780.
- ^ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage. 1914.
- ^ "Dilkea Mast. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- MacColl, Norman (1888). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 15. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Davis, John R. "Dilke, Sir (Charles) Wentworth, first baronet (1810–1869)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7646. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Wentworth Dilke, Bt
- "Archival material relating to Wentworth Dilke". UK National Archives.
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