Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843 - 1911) was an English publicist and politician, grandson of the preceding, born at Chelsea. He was called to the bar. He travelled in America and the English colonies, and wrote a record of his travels in his "Greater Britain". He entered Parliament as an extreme Liberal. He held office under Mr. Gladstone. From exposures in a divorce case had to retire from public life, but returned after a time.

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