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Lady Maud Dundas. William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, DSO (31 December 1910 – 13 May 1948), styled Viscount Milton before 1943, was a British soldier, nobleman, and peer, with a seat in the House of Lords .
The seventh Earl was William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (25 July 1872 – 15 February 1943), the eldest son of Viscount Milton (William Wentworth Fitzwilliam). He represented Wakefield in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. When he died the titles passed to his son, the eighth Earl. The eighth Earl was Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (31 December 1910 ...
Peter, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, was passionate about securing a future for Wentworth Woodhouse. In 1948, with the support of his aunt, Lady Mabel Smith, he offered the house to West Riding County Council for use by the Education Authority on a 50-year full repairing lease.
Jul 24, 2019 · Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, watched as diggers wrenched up the gardens. Two years later, Lord Fitzwilliam was killed in a plane crash over France with his mistress ...
Mar 21, 2020 · 21 Mar 2020. Photograph of Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam and Kick Kennedy by Turtle Bunbury. Peter Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910-1948), soldier, nobleman and peer, with a seat in the House of Lords. He was born at Wentworth Woodhouse, just over the Sheffield border with Rotherham, married Olive Dorothea Plunket in 1933, and ...
William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam, DSO (31 December 1910 – 13 May 1948), styled Viscount Milton before 1943, was a British soldier, nobleman, and peer, with a seat in the House of Lords. The fifth child and only son of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, he was born at the family's seat of Wentworth Woodhouse. On 20 July 1929, after serving as a Cadet in the Eton College Contingent (June Division) of the Officer Training Corps, he was commissioned as a second ...
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16th cent-19th cent: Yorks (Wentworth Woodhouse, etc) estate accounts 1781-95, Malton (Yorks) estate rental 1714 and Northants (Higham Ferrers, etc) manorial and estate papers 16th-19th cent, with Wentworth Woodhouse (Yorks) architectural papers and papers of the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833) and the 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857), etc ...
