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Charles Wentworth Dilke (Dilke the Elder) (1789-1864), editor of the Athenaeum from 1830.
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (1810-1869), his son.
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet (1843-1911), his grandson.
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Wentworth Dilke, after giving birth in 1850 to her second child, Ashton Dilke, had 'fallen into a deep decline'; and Charles Dilke, at the age of seven, was handed over to his grandfather's charge, partly to solace the old widower's loneliness, partly to relieve the strain on his mother.
Wentworth Dilke's association in the Prince Consort's most cherished schemes had brought him on a footing of friendship with the Royal Family; and on July 25th, 1851, his wife wrote that the Queen had come over and talked to her in the Exhibition ground.
Dilke to all appearance was "very serious," and in disposition of mind ten years older than his fellows, while the young Northumbrian's whole preoccupation was to maintain and enlarge the fame of his college on the river.
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 Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(February 18, 1810 - May 10, 1869), English politician, son of Charles Wentworth Dilke, proprietor and editor of The Athenaeum, was born in London, and was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
At the close of the exhibition he was honoured by foreign sovereigns, and the queen offered him knighthood, which, however, he did not accept; he also declined a large remuneration offered by the royal commission.
In 1853 Dilke was one of the English commissioners at the New York Industrial Exhibition, and prepared a report on it.
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 SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE - LoveToKnow Article on SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE
English politician, son of Charles Wentworth Dilke, proprietor and editor of The Athenaeum, was born in London on the 18th of February 1810, and was educated at Westminster school and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
In 1734 he was appointed Sherardian professor of botany at Oxford, in accordance with the will of W. Sherard, who at hisdeath in 1728 left the university 3000 for the endowment of the chair, as well as his library and herbarium.
Dillen, who was alsothe author of an Historia muscorum (1741), died at Oxford, of apoplexy, on the 2nd of April 1747.
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 Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet.
Here you will find more informations about Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet.
He became a Liberal Member of Parliament; he was ruined at the height of his career after being cited as co-respondent in a divorce suit.
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But the true spiritual influence on Charles Dilke's early life was derived from his grandfather, whose nature had in it much of the serenity and wise happiness which go to the making of a saint.
Charles Dilke was sent in 1862, as in later days he sent his own son, to his father's college.
Dilke was elected to the Library Committee of the Union in his second term, and in his third to the Standing Committee.
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As events proved, it was the budget that was to provide a cause of dissension, bringing a new political movement into being, and an issue overriding all the legislative interest of the session.
Charles Thomson Ritchie 's remission of the shilling import-duty on corn led to Joseph Chamberlain 's crusade in favor of tariff reform and colonial preference, and as the session preceded the rift grew in the unionist ranks.
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 Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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Wentworth, W.C. The most prominent political figure in Australia during the first half of the 19th century was W.C. Wentworth.
His legacy to his native province of New South Wales was trial by jury, freedom of the press, and the right of the people to elect their own legislature.
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 Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
In Gladstone's second Liberal government, Dilke was finally promoted to the Cabinet as president of the Local Government Board in 1882.
Apart from his departmental activities, Dilke was eager, with Joseph Chamberlain, to press the general Radical point of view within the Cabinet.
Dilke strenuously denied the story, and, when the case was heard, in February 1886, there was adjudged to be no evidence against him, although Crawford got his divorce.
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He was ruined at the height of his career when he was cited as a corespondent in a sensational divorce suit in 1886.
Dilke denied the woman's story, and the accumulated evidence showed that much of it was a fabrication.
He returned to the House of Commons (1892–1911), where he promoted progressive labor legislation and gained a reputation as a military expert.
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Helen Taylor from and to Charles Dilke, 1873-1897.
Helen Taylor from and to Katherine Dilke, 1873.
Helen Taylor from and to Charles Jacquet, May-June 1873.
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LÉON GAMBETTA Photographed by F. Hollyer from the painting by Legros, bequeathed by Sir Charles W. Dilke to the Luxembourg and Louvre Museums.
Even in his earliest term Dilke soon passed out of the rôle of a mere listener and critic.
Of recent or contemporary authors, Montalembert was included, with Proudhon, as were men whom Charles Dilke came to know personally--Émile de Girardin, Michel Chevalier, and, a close friend afterwards, Louis Blanc.
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The future radical Liberal politician, Sir Charles Dilke, was the President largely responsible for construction.
The Cambridge Union is sometimes confused with the Cambridge University Students' Union, the representative body for undergraduate students set up much more recently in 1971.
Similarly, the term 'President of the Union' is also occasionally misused, for example, in reference to Charles Clarke, a former president of the students' union.
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 The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 by Stephen Gwynn - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/11)
Charles Dilke was sent in 1862, as in later days he sent his own son, to
Charles Dilke had assumed by inheritance from his grandfather.
Charles Dilke was one of those whom he instructed, and it was
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 Charles Wentworth Dilke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
(Click link for more info and facts about Charles Wentworth Dilke (Dilke the Elder)) Charles Wentworth Dilke (Dilke the Elder) (1789-1864), editor of the (A place where reading materials are available) Athenaeum from 1830.
(Click link for more info and facts about Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet) Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (1810-1869), his son.
(Click link for more info and facts about Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet) Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet (1843-1911), his grandson.
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Please do not add people to this category; add them to the respective subcategory (Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for example).
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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References in correspondence to Charles Dilke and Joseph Chamberlain, the former's political rival.
According to note on original storage envelope, this letter was finished by Charles Dilke.
DESCRIPTION: Contains newsclippings re Charles Dilke and individuals related the to the scandal involving the divorce case of his mistress Virginia Crawford.
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Though not opposed to moderate parliamentary reform, he was shocked by the sweeping measure introduced by the ministry of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, in March 1831.
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In 1881 he also established the Irish Coercion Act that let the Viceroy detain people for as "long as was thought necessary." Parliamentary reform continued, however, and in 1884 Gladstone instituted the Redistribution of Seats Act.
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Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet,Charles Dilke succeeds Dodson as President of the Local Government Board.
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Dilke, Charles Wentworth (1789-1864) Critic and Antiquary (4)
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1810-1869) 1st Baronet (5)
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911) 2nd Baronet Politician and Author (39)
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DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Lord Derby to Shane Leslie with information concerning the latter's father's (Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet) military career: "Your father and I were in the Grenadiers together for many years and latterly in the same Battalion & company.
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