Dilke, Charles Wentworth, English critic and journalist; served for 20 years in the Navy Pay-Office; contributed to the Westminister and other reviews; was proprietor and editor of the Athenæum; started the Daily News; left literary Papers, edited by his grandson (1789‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dilettantism * Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth