William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton
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Milton was the eldest 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....
, and was educated at Eton
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
and Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
. He was epileptic
Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases...
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Arriving in Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
in July 1862, Milton and Dr Walter Butler Cheadle
Walter Butler Cheadle
Dr. Walter Butler Cheadle was an English paediatrician.Cheadle was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, graduating M.B. in 1861 and then studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School in London...
traveled across the North American continent, wintering near Fort Carlton
Fort Carlton
Fort Carlton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post from 1810 until 1885. It was rebuilt by the Saskatchewan government as a provincial historic park and can be visited today...
. After a challenging and at times humorous summer they reached Victoria, BC
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
. Together with Butler Cheadle, he traveled up the Athabasca River
Athabasca River
The Athabasca River originates from the Columbia Glacier of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada...
and in 1863 they became the first "tourists" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass
Yellowhead Pass
The Yellowhead Pass is a mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies. It is located on the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and lies within Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park....
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They later co-authored "The North-West Passage by Land" and " Voyage de l'Atlantique au Pacifique, à travers le Canada", which described their expedition in considerable detail.
Following his adventure in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Milton entered politics and became one of the youngest members of the House of Commons
British House of Commons
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. He represented the West Riding of Yorkshire South
Southern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Southern West Riding of Yorkshire was a parliamentary constituency covering part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the bloc vote system.- History :The constituency was created...
between 1865 and 1872.
Marriage and issue
On 10 August 1867, in LondonLondon
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, Lord Milton married Laura Maria Theresa (3 January 1849-30 March 1886 Wentworth Woodhouse
Wentworth Woodhouse
Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house near the village of Wentworth, in the vicinity of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "One of the great Whig political palaces", its East Front, long, is the longest country house façade in Europe. The house includes 365 rooms and covers an...
), daughter of Lord Charles Beauclerk. They had one son and three daughters;
- Lady Laura Mary Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1 February 1869-2 March 1936)
- Mabel Florence Harriett Wentoworth-FitzWilliamLady Mabel FitzwilliamLady Mabel Florence Harriet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was an English socialist politician, later known as Lady Mabel Smith....
(14 July 1870-26 September 1951) - William Charles de Meuron Wentworth-FitzWilliamWilliam Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 7th Earl FitzWilliamWilliam 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...
(25 July 1872-15 February 1943) - Lady Theresa Evelyn Vilunza Wentworth-FitzWilliam (b. 5 September 1875)
He died in January 1877, aged only 37, predeceasing his father. Their son succeeded as Earl FitzWilliam
Earl FitzWilliam
Earl Fitzwilliam was a title in both the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of Great Britain held by the head of the Fitzwilliam family. This family claim descent from William the Conqueror. The Fitzwilliams acquired extensive holdings in South Yorkshire, largely through strategic alliances through...
in 1902.