The Hon. Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam (18 September 1826-20 December 1894), was a British Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician.

Background

Wentworth-FitzWilliam was a younger son of Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam

Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam

Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam KG was a British nobleman. He was three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ....

, and the Hon. Mary, daughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas

Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas

Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas FRS , known as Sir Thomas Dundas, 2nd Baronet, from 1781 to 1794, was a powerful figure in the Kingdom of Great Britain, now remembered for commissioning the Charlotte Dundas, the world's "first practical steamboat".-Biography:Thomas was the only son of Sir Lawrence...

. William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam

William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, KG was a British peer and Liberal politician....

 and George Wentworth-FitzWilliam

George Wentworth-FitzWilliam

-Background:Wentworth-FitzWilliam was a younger son of Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam, and Mary, daughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas...

 were his elder brothers.

Political career

Wentworth-FitzWilliam was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Malton

Malton (UK Parliament constituency)

Malton, also called New Malton, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England in 1295 and 1298, and again from 1640, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885...

in 1852, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished in 1885.

Family

Wentworth-FitzWilliam married his first cousin Anne, daughter of Reverend Thomas Lawrence Dundas, in 1854. He died in December 1894, aged 68. His wife died in December 1925.