DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH

DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH
   English publicist and politician, grandson of the preceding, born at Chelsea; called to the bar; travelled in America and the English colonies, and wrote a record of his travels in his "Greater Britain"; entered Parliament as an extreme Liberal; held office under Mr. Gladstone; from exposures in a divorce case had to retire from public life, but returned after a time; b. 1843.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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