Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam

The Right Honourable

The Earl Fitzwilliam

KG
The Right Honourable; The Earl Fitzwilliam; KG
	copy of a portrait by John Hoppner
Born	Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam; 4 May 1786
Died	4 October 1857 (aged 71)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Eton College
Spouse	Hon. Mary Dundas (m. 1806; died 1830)
Children	13, including:; William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam; Hon. George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; Hon. Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam;
Parents	William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam; Lady Charlotte Ponsonby;

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).

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