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