The New Student's Reference Work/Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth

The New Student's Reference Work
Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth
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Dilke (dĭlk), Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wentworth, an English statesman and author, was born at Chelsea, Sept. 4, 1843. He graduated at Cambridge, and was soon after called to the bar. He published in 1868 a description of his travels in the United States, Australia and New Zealand under the title, Greater Britain. He was elected to Parliament in 1868, was under-secretary for foreign affairs and also president of the
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local-government board under Gladstone. In 1886 his connection with a divorce case prevented his reëlection to Parliament, but his influence was still felt through his writings. His essays, collected under the title of The Present Position of European Politics, were first published in the Fortnightly Review. He has also published works on the British army, army-reform, imperial defense and the British empire and a work entitled Problems of Greater Britain. In 1892 he was again returned to Parliament.