Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam (MP)

{{Short description|British politician & cricketer (1826-1894)}}

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| name = {{nowrap|Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam}}

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| father = {{nowrap|Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam}}

| mother = Hon. Mary Dundas

| spouse = {{marriage|Anne Dundas|1854}}

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| party = Liberal

| relatives = {{nowrap|William Wentworth-FitzWilliam (brother)}}
{{nowrap|George Wentworth-FitzWilliam (brother)}}

| office = Member of Parliament for Malton

| term_start = 1852

| term_end = 1885

| alongside = Sir Evelyn Denison (1852-1857)
James Brown (1857-1868)
(representation reduced to one member 1868)

| predecessor = Sir Evelyn Denison
John Walbanke-Childers

| successor = Constituency abolished

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The Hon. Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam (18 September 1826 – 20 December 1894) was a Liberal Party politician and first-class cricketer in the United Kingdom.

Wentworth-FitzWilliam was a younger son of Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam, and the Hon. Mary, daughter of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas. William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam and George Wentworth-FitzWilliam were his elder brothers.

Wentworth-FitzWilliam played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University at Lord's in 1849.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36801/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Charles Fitzwilliam|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-05-02|url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed by Edward Blore and Alfred Potter for scores of 10 and 4 respectively.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/850.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University, 1849|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-05-02|url-access=subscription}} He was elected Member of Parliament for Malton in 1852, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished in 1885.

Wentworth-FitzWilliam married his first cousin Anne, daughter of Reverend Thomas Lawrence Dundas, in 1854. He died in December 1894, aged 68. His wife died in December 1925.