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Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 9th Earl Fitzwilliam (4 December 1883 – 3 April 1952) was a British nobleman and politician.
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).
His great uncle Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 9th and 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (age 64) succeeded 9th Earl Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, 11th Baron Fitzwilliam of Liffer in Donegal.
The seventh Earl was William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (25 July 1872 – 15 February 1943), the eldest son of Viscount Milton (William Wentworth Fitzwilliam). He represented Wakefield in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist .
He welcomed the government’s corn bill as ‘a great improvement’, 1 Mar., but on the 9th complained that it did not go far enough and voted in the minority of 50 for a lower pivot price; he divided against increased protection for barley, 12 Mar. Grey privately deplored the ‘language which Milton thinks it proper to hold’ against the ...
He was succeeded by the 9th Earl Fitzwilliam, Eric, Peter’s first cousin once removed. Eric was a reclusive alcoholic and he died in 1952 with no male heir and so the title and estates passed to his second cousin Tom, who had grown up at Milton, the family’s estate in Northamptonshire.
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Lady Albreda Mary Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (dsp. 9 Oct 1933), mar. 18 Dec 1895 Hon Charles Fowler Bourke CB DL (b. 5 Oct 1823; dsp. 4 Apr 1899), 5th son of Robert [Bourke], 5th Earl of Mayo, by his wife Anne Charlotte Jocelyn, only dau. and hrss. of Hon John Jocelyn MP, of Fair Hill, co. Louth (by his wife Margaret Fitzgerald, dau. of Rt Hon ...
