Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 9th Earl Fitzwilliam (4 December 1883 – 3 April 1952) was a British nobleman and politician.
Life
Eric Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was the son of
Captain the Hon. Sir William Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, fourth son of
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 Peerage, peer, nobleman, and Liberal ...
, and Constance Anne Brocklehurst.
[''Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1952), p. 90]
Fitzwilliam was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the
Royal Army Service Corps
The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and do ...
in 1909. In 1912, he married Jessica Gertrude Rowlands. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he gained a temporary commission in the
Leicestershire Yeomanry
The Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794 and again in 1803, which provided cavalry and mounted infantry in the Second Boer War and the First World War and provided two fie ...
as a lieutenant. His marriage was dissolved in 1917, with no children having been born.
[
In May 1948, Fitzwilliam's cousin ]Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam
William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, DSO (31 December 1910 – 13 May 1948), styled Viscount Milton before 1943, was a British soldier, nobleman, and peer, with a seat in the House of Lords.
Early life
The ...
, died without a son, and he inherited his peerages.[ Several of the estates which had descended with them went to the 8th Earl's thirteen-year-old daughter, Lady Juliet, but Fitzwilliam inherited half of the ]entailed
In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust law, trust, established by deed or settlement, that restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate (law), estate in real property and prevents that property from being sold, devised by ...
Wentworth Woodhouse
Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, South Yorkshire, Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation T ...
estate.
On Fitzwilliam's death in 1952 this line of the family came to an end, and the peerages were inherited by a second cousin, Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam
William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam Justice of the peace, JP (28 May 1904 – 21 September 1979), known as Tom, of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire (the largest private residence in England) and of M ...
.[ The 9th Earl Fitzwilliam was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth.Sir Eric Spencer Wentworth Fitzwilliam]
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References
External links
*http://www.thepeerage.com
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1883 births
1952 deaths
Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain
Earls Fitzwilliam
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Army Service Corps officers
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