Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wentworth, John (3)
Wentworth, John, created D.C.L. 12 Aug., 1766, last royal governor and captain-general of the province, of New Hampshire, America, 1766 (s. Mark Hunkyn Wentworth, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire), M.A. Harvard University, U.S.A., 1758, D.C.L. Dartmouth College 1773, and D.C.L. Aberdeen 1773, surveyor-general of his Majesty's woods in North America, and lieut.-governor of Nova Scotia 1792, created a baronet 16 May, 1795, died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8 April, 1820, aged 83.