1. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet, was an English art patron, horticulturalist and Whig politician.
13 Facts About Wentworth Dilke
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Wentworth Dilke is best remembered as one of the chief promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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Wentworth Dilke was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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Wentworth Dilke helped pass the Reform Act 1832, enacted under the Whig administration of Lord Grey.
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Wentworth Dilke studied law, and in 1834 took his degree of LL.
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Wentworth Dilke was one of the most zealous promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and a member of the executive committee.
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Wentworth Dilke declined a large remuneration offered by the royal commission.
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In 1853 Wentworth Dilke was one of the English commissioners at the New York Industrial Exhibition, and prepared a report on it.
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Wentworth Dilke again declined to receive any monetary reward for his services.
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Wentworth Dilke was appointed one of the five royal commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1862.
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Wentworth Dilke's health had been for some time failing, and he died suddenly in that city, on 10 May 1869.
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Wentworth Dilke married Mary Chatfield, daughter of William Chatfield, in 1840.
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Wentworth Dilke was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Charles, whose promising political career was destroyed by a well-publicised divorce case in the 1880s.