William Hart Dyke, 7th baronet
1837–1931
Politician. MA, Oxford (Christchurch), 1864. Conservative MP for West Kent, 1865–8; Mid Kent, 1868–85; Dartford, 1885–1906. Whip, 1868–74; chief whip, 1874–80; patronage secretary to the treasury, 1874–80; member of the Privy Council, 1880; chief secretary for Ireland, 1885–6; vice-president of the committee of council on education, 1887–92. Succeeded as seventh baronet in 1875.
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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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