Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth (14 December 1862–12 November 1951) was a British

British people

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 army

British Army

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 officer and Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

The eldest son of Thomas Frederick Charles Vernon Wentworth of Wentworth Castle

Wentworth Castle

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 near Barnsley

Barnsley

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, Yorkshire

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 and Dall House

Rannoch School

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, Rannoch

Rannoch

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, Perthshire

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 and his wife Lady Harriet Augusta Canning de Burgh, daughter of the Marquess of Clanricarde

Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

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 and grand daughter of former prime minister

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 George Canning

George Canning

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Educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst

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, he received a commission in the Grenadier Guards

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, rising to the rank of captain.

A member of the Conservative Party, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of Barnsley

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 on three occasions. He entered the Commons at an unopposed by-election in 1893, when he was elected to represent Brighton

Brighton (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He held the seat until the 1906 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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Vernon-Wentworth was a director of the London and Yorkshire Bank and of the Yorkshire local board of the National Provincial Bank

National Provincial Bank

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Limited. He sold Wentworth Castle to Barnsley Corporation in 1948, and died unmarried in 1951, aged 88.

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