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Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth, born 1843, is the son of the last-mentioned. After studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was called to the bar, and then travelled through the United States and the chief British colonies, embodying his experiences in his work Greater Britain (1868). In the same year he entered Parliament as an advanced Liberal, and held office twice. In 1886 he was defeated at Chelsea, and shortly afterwards retired into private life, but returned to Parliament at the election of 1892. He is a very high authority on Colonial and European politics, and military matters. His second wife was the widow of Mark Pattison, late Rector of Lincoln College.