NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fitzwilliam, Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1786-1857 DNB: Fitzwilliam, Charles William Wentworth, third Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain and fifth Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Ireland (1786-1857), politician LBT ID: LdFitzw3 VIAF ID: 72149107 LOC ID: n85312062 | B/BAP: 1786-05-04 DIED: 1857-10-04 |
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Son of the second earl (d. 1833); educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a Whig
MP for Malton (1806-07), Yorkshire (1807-30), Peterborough (1830), and Northamptonshire
(1831-31). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, third earl Fitzwilliam: Lord Milton to Thomas Creevey, 8 January 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) |