625 Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam

Constituency : Wicklow  1868-74,  South West  Riding  1880-85, Doncaster  1888-92 ( Liberal Unionist )

Henry  took  over  from  Lord  Proby  at  Wicklow.

Henry  was  the  second  son  of  Earl  Fitzwilliam.

Henry  was  never  a  strong  supporter  of  Gladstone. He  supported  the  Whig  peers'  amendment to  the  Disestablishment  Act  in  1869  and  outright  opposed  the  first  Irish  Land  Act. He  lost his Irish  seat  to  a  Home  Ruler  in  1874  and  came  back  in  for  the  South  West  Riding  seat  in 1880.

Henry  contested  Doncaster  as  a  Liberal  Unionist  in  1886. A  rock  thrown  through  his  carriage  window  hit  his  wife  during  the  campaign. He  lost  but  won  the  by-election  there  in  1888. He  was  defeated  in  1892. All  the  contests  were  close.

He died  in  1920  aged  79.