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Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1810-1869), son of the above, was born in London, and educated at Westminster and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He took an active part in the promotion of the Great Exhibition of 1851, as also in that of 1862, for his services to which he was created baronet. In 1865 he represented Wallingford in Parliament; he died in 1869 at St. Petersburg, whither he had gone as English representative at an agricultural exhibition.