Dilke. I. Charles Wentworth, an English journalist, born Dec. 8, 1789, died Aug. 10, 1864. He graduated at Cambridge, and early found employment in the navy pay office, where he remained 20 years. In 1830 he became editor and proprietor of the "Athenaeum," which speedily rose to a high rank in English periodical literature. In 1846, having intrusted the editorship of the "Athenaeum" to Mr. Thomas Kibble Hervey, Mr. Dilke undertook that of the "Daily News," from which he retired in 1849. A valuable collection of "Old English Plays," in 6 vols., was edited by him in 1814. II. Sir Charles Wentworth, son of the preceding, born in London, Feb. 18, 1810, died in St. Petersburg, May 10, 1869. He was educated at Westminster school and Cambridge, and from his interest in art was one of the earliest and most active promoters of the crystal palace exhibition of 1851. He declined the knighthood offered him for his services on this occasion, and also refused any pecuniary reward. He was a commissioner to the New York crystal palace exhibition in 1853, and one of the five royal commissioners of the second London exhibition in 1862, in which year he was created a baronet. He was active in the society of antiquaries and the royal geographical society.

He sat in parliament for Wallingford from July, 1865, to November, 1868. III. Sir Charles Wentworth, an English author and politician, son of the preceding, born in Chelsea, Sept. 4, 1843. He was educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1866, and was called to the bar. He travelled in Canada and the United States, crossing to the Pacific coast, and sailing thence for Australia and the other British colonies in the South sea. The result of these travels he published in "Greater Britain: a Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries during 1866-7" (2 vols., 18G8). In 1868 he was elected to parliament from Chelsea, by a majority of two to one over Dr. W. H. Russell. On the death of his father he became editor of the "Athenaeum." In politics he is a republican, and has attracted much attention by his attacks on the monarchical system.