William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam JP (28 May 1904 – 21 September 1979), known as Tom, of

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, near

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, Yorkshire (the largest private residence in England) and of

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, Peterborough (the largest house in Cambridgeshire), was a British peer. He was the

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of 33 livings. When he died without issue the earldom became extinct.

Origins

He was the son and heir of George Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, son of Hon. George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, MP, 3rd son of the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (1786–1857). His mother was Evelyn Lyster, daughter of Charles Stephen Lyster.

Career

He was educated at

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in houses run by Reginald Saumarez de Havilland and Clement James Mellish Adie. In 1923 he went up to

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

. He was appointed Justice of the Peace (JP) for the

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Marriage

On 3 April 1956, he married Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (25 April 1898 – 7 June 1995) of

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. She had previously been married to the 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent (1883–1962), from whom she was divorced in 1955. She died in 1995 at her home in Peterborough.

Death

He died in 1979 at Wentworth Woodhouse. He left no issue from his marriage. He left £11,776,401 gross (£11,584,880 net), thus paying virtually no death duties.''The Guardian'', 8 December 1979.

Ancestry

References

Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey, (the rise and fall of an English Dynasty

External links

Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl FitzwilliamGenealogy
1904 births 1979 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain Earls Fitzwilliam English justices of the peace {{Ireland-earl-stub