Thirteenth Generation

2671. Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 2nd Baronet was born on 4 September 1843 in Chelsea, London, England. He died on 26 January 1911 at the age of 67 in Chelsea, London, England. He lived in 76 Sloane Street, London, England 1872/1874. Death GRO 1st qtr 1911
Dilke, Charles W 67 Chelsea 1a 274
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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.

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 2nd Baronet and Katherine Mary Eliza Snell were married on 20 January 1872 in Chelsea, London, England. Marriages GRO 1st qtr 1872
Dilke, Charles Wentworth Chelsea 1a 362
SHEIL, Katherine Mary E Chelsea 1a 362
Katherine Mary Eliza Snell, daughter of Arthur Gore Snell, was born about 1842. She died on 29 September 1874 at the age of 32 in Chelsea, London, England. Birth not found on GRO.
Death GRO 3rd qtr 1874
DILKE, Katherine Mary E 32 Chelsea 1a 196
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Commonly called Katherine Sheil.
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She died very shortly after the birth of her son. She had already been ill for about a month or so.

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 2nd Baronet and Katherine Mary Eliza Snell had the following children:

Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 2nd Baronet and Emilia Frances Strong were married on 3 October 1885 in Chelsea, London, England. Marriage GRO 4th qtr 1885
DILKE, Charles Wentworth Chelsea 1a 617
PATTISON, Emilia Francis S Chelsea 1a 617
Emilia Frances Strong, daughter of Henry Strong and Emily ?, was born in 1840 in Ilfracombe, Devon, England. She appeared in the census in 1841 in North Field, Ilfracombe, Devon, England. She appeared in the census in 1851 in High St., All Saints, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Emilia died on 24 October 1904 at the age of 64 in Chertsey, Surrey, England. Birth GRO 4th qtr 1840
Strong, Emily Barnstaple 10 37
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Death GRO 4th qtr 1904
DILKE, Emilia Frances S 64 Chertsey 2a 44
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No issue of this marriage.