Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, English publicist and politician, grandson of the preceding, born at Chelsea; called to the bar; travelled in America and the English colonies, and wrote a record of his travels in his “Greater Britain”; entered Parliament as an extreme Liberal; held office under Mr. Gladstone; from exposures in a divorce case had to retire from public life, but returned after a time; (b. 1843).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dilke, Charles Wentworth * Dillmann