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William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, DSO (31 December 1910 – 13 May 1948), styled Viscount Milton before 1943, was a British soldier, nobleman, and peer, with a seat in the House of Lords. Early life.
Mar 21, 2020 · Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948), soldier, nobleman and peer, with a seat in the House of Lords. He was born at Wentworth Woodhouse, just over the Sheffield border with Rotherham, married Olive Dorothea Plunket in 1933, and succeeded to the earldom in 1943.
When he died the titles passed to his son, the eighth Earl. The eighth Earl was Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (31 December 1910 – 13 May 1948). He was killed in an air crash in France.
- Back in The Late 1940s
- For The Fitzwilliam Family
- Post-War Britain
Country houses were largely seen as white elephants – built for a long-gone and unsustainable way of life that had no relevance in a post-war society. In fact, during the 1940s and 1950s, the UK was losing country houses at the rate of one per week as owners demolished them or they succumbed to fire or abandonment. Huge social changes had taken pla...
Much of their income came from the coal mines they owned around Wentworth Woodhouse. In 1947, coal mines were nationalised and although the family did receive financial compensation, it didn’t make up for the huge annual revenues that their coal mines had provided. This didn’t mean that they were poor, they had other sources of income, but it did m...
But the hard times that post-war Britain visited on the house were far from over. Peter was tragically killed in a plane crash in May 1948, at the age of 38. He was succeeded by the 9thEarl 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 t...
Jul 24, 2019 · Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, watched as diggers wrenched up the gardens. Two years later, Lord Fitzwilliam was killed in a plane crash over France with his...
Lady Juliet was born to Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, the only son of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, and his wife, Olive Plunket. In 1943, when she was eight, her father inherited the title of Earl Fitzwilliam, and she became Lady Juliet.
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After the 8th Earl, the 9th Earl was Eric Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (apparently known as ‘bottle and bottle Eric’), who died in 1952 without issue. Once again the title had to find the next nearest surviving male heir.
