The Hon. Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam (18 September 1826 – 20 December 1894) was a

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politician and first-class

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er in the United Kingdom. Wentworth-FitzWilliam was a younger son of

Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Ireland, and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain, (4 May 1786 – 4 October 1857) was a British nobleman and politician. He was president three time ...

, and the Hon. Mary, daughter of

Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (16 February 1741 – 14 June 1820), known as Sir Thomas Dundas, 2nd Baronet from 1781 to 1794, was a British people, British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1763 ...

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, (12 October 1815 – 20 February 1902), styled Hon. William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 1815–1835, and Viscount Milton 1835–1857, was a British peer, nobleman, and Liberal Party ...

and

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were his elder brothers. Wentworth-FitzWilliam played

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for the

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against

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in 1849. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed by

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and

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for scores of 10 and 4 respectively. He was elected

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for Malton in 1852, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished in 1885. Wentworth-FitzWilliam married his first cousin Anne, daughter of Reverend Thomas Lawrence Dundas, in 1854. He died in December 1894, aged 68. His wife died in December 1925.

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