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Death GRO 1st qtr 1911
Dilke, Charles W 67 Chelsea 1a 274
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Clinton Mirror - Jan 28 1911
"London, Jan. Charles Wentworth Dilke died following a breakdown due to the strain of the recent campaign. Sir Charles had represented the Forest of Dean division of Gloucester in parliament since He..."
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Address: 76 Sloane Street, SW1
Dates at address: 1843 - 1911
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : Saturday 14 December 1918)
Article about the period 1870-1818 published http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/20274954?searchTerm=chatfield%20marriage&searchLimits=#pstart1599499

Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911), politician and author, was born on 4 September 1843 in London, son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke and his wife Mary, née Chatfield. He left England in June 1866 for America, then went to New Zealand and arrived at Sydney on 1 January 1867. After a brief visit to Queensland, he returned to Sydney via Newcastle, and in February went to Melbourne. In 1869 he succeeded to the baronetcy and proprietorship of the Athenaeum.

Dilke became Liberal Member of Parliament for Chelsea in 1868, a seat he held until 1885. He was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1880 to 1882 during Gladstone's second government and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1882. In December 1882 he entered the cabinet as President of the Local Government Board, serving until 1885. A leading and determined radical within the Liberal party, he negotiated the passage of the Third Reform Act, which the Conservatives allowed through the House of Lords in return for redistribution favourable to themselves (the granting of the vote to agricultural labourers threatened Conservative dominance of rural seats, but in return many double-member seats were abolished and seats redistributed to suburbia, where Conservative support was growing). He also supported laws giving the municipal franchise to women, legalising labour unions, improving working conditions and limiting working hours, as well as being one of the earliest campaigners for universal schooling.

The Crawford scandal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Dilke,_2nd_Baronet nearly ruined him.

Dilke later became MP for Forest of Dean in 1892, serving until his death in 1911. He had hoped to be appointed Secretary of State for War in the Liberal Government formed in 1905, but this was not to be.

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