Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam

The Earl Fitzwilliam
copy of a portrait by John Hoppner
Born
Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam

4 May 1786
Died4 October 1857(1857-10-04) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
Alma materEton College
Spouse
Hon. Mary Dundas
(m. 1806; died 1830)
Children13, including:
Parents
Quartered arms of Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam, KG

Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Ireland, and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain, KG (4 May 1786 – 4 October 1857) was a British nobleman and politician. He was president three times of the Royal Statistical Society in 1838–1840, 1847–1849, and 1853–1855; and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in its inaugural year (1831–2).[1]

  1. ^ Fitzwilliam, Charles William, Earl (1844) Correspondence ... of Edmund Burke, London.