William John Wentworth-FitzWilliam (7 August 1852 – 11 September 1889), 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.

Wentworth-FitzWilliam was the fifth son of 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 his wife Lady Frances Harriet, daughter of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton

George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton

George Sholto Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton , known as George Douglas until 1827, was a Scottish Tory politician....

. William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, was his elder brother and William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 7th Earl FitzWilliam

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 7th Earl FitzWilliam

William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 7th Earl FitzWilliam was a British aristocrat. He was born in Pointe de Meuron, Canada and died at the family's seat...

, his nephew. He entered Parliament for Peterborough

Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formally styled The Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past...

in 1878, a seat he held until his death.

Wentworth-FitzWilliam died in September 1889, aged 37.

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