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Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was the only son of William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1756-1833).
He married Hon. Mary Dundas in 1806.
Children: Lady Charlotte Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1807- ) Hon. Margaret Bruce Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1809 - 1809) Lady Mary Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1810 - 1893). Married Leonard Thompson William Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton (1812 - 1835) Lady Frances Laura Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1813 - 1887). Married Rev William Bridgman-Simpson. William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam (1815 - 1902). Hon. George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1817 - 1874). Married Alice Louisa Anson. Lady Anne Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1819 - 1879). Married Sir James John Randoll Mackenzie. Lady Dorothy Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1822 - ) Hon. John Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1823 - 1824) Hon. Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1826 - 1894). Married Anne Dundas. Lady Albreda Elizabeth Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1829 - 1891). Married Fitzpatrick Henry Vernon, 2nd Baron Lyveden.
Charles was the third Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain and fifth Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Ireland.
He was President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1838-1840, 1847-1849, and 1853-1855; and also President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in its inaugural year (1831-1832). |