Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
1810–69
Magistrate and politician. Son of Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1789–1864 (ODNB). Served on the executive committee of the Great Exhibition. MP for Wallingford, 1865–8. Magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex. Vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society. Founder of the Gardeners’ Chronicle. Created baronet, 1862.
Sources
Athenæum, 15 May 1869
ODNB
The Times, 12 May 1869, p. 5.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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