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  1. Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 9th Earl Fitzwilliam (4 December 1883 – 3 April 1952) was a British nobleman and politician. Life. Eric Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was the son of Captain the Hon. Sir William Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, fourth son of William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam, and Constance Anne Brocklehurst.

  2. William Charles, whose son Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (1883-1952) would become the 9th Earl Fitzwilliam when the immediate male line died out after the 7th Earl’s son. Among their other children was Mabel Florence Harriet (1870 to 1951).

  3. Mar 1, 2007 · The book goes off on a tangent, with too many unrelated details about Kick Kennedy. She and Peter Fitzwilliam, the eighth earl, were considering marriage before their tragic death in a plane crash on May 13, 1948. Why did they take off when the thunder storm over the Rhone Valley was forecasted?!

  4. Apr 8, 2020 · But was it? As Bailey retraces the Fitzwilliam family history, she uncovers a legacy riddled with bitter feuds, scandals (including Peter Fitzwilliam's ill-fated affair with American heiress Kick Kennedy), and civil unrest as the conflict between the coal industry and its miners came to a head.

  5. Jun 21, 2016 · Catherine Baileys book, Black Diamonds, opens with the funeral of William the 6th, Earl of Fitzwilliam. The author uses this as a starting point to not only look into the lives of the aristocrats, but also as a way to focus on the intermingling lives of the aristocrats and the working class.

  6. Oct 17, 2021 · In 1952, a scandal about legitimacy would rock the family again upon the death of Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the 9th Earl Fitzwilliam, who died childless.

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  8. Dec 30, 2014 · The author’s remarkable story primarily covers the time of the seventh Earl of Fitzwilliam, who inherited the title in 1902. She shows how class differences and the effect of two wars, strikes and the final blow of the postwar Labour government brought down many of the aristocracy.

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