Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first baronet

(1810-1869)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1810-1869 NRA: Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1810-1869) 1st Baronet DNB: Dilke, Sir (Charles) Wentworth, first baronet (1810-1869), art patron LBT ID: ChDilke1869 VIAF ID: 65570312 LOC ID: n88218514	B/BAP: 1810-02-18 DIED: 1869-05-10
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Son of Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789-1864); he was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge and was MP for Wallingford (1865-68). He organized the Great Exhibition of 1851.
REFERENCES TO Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first baronet: Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXI Found 1: ¶ 29 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IX. 1851. Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Preface Found 1: ¶ 6