FITZWILLIAM

Charles William Went worth , 5 Earl ( only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833 ). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for North amp tons hire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Went worth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addre es on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Went worth house, Rother ham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii , 337–42 (1854). FITZWILLIAM, Edward . b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at South end, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village , at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Mid loth i an , Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii , 267–76 (1825), portrait ; Cumber land’s Minor Theatre , vol. 2 , portrait .