Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet

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Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet PC JP DL (7 August 1837 – 3 July 1931) was an English Conservative politician.

The second son of Sir Percival Hart Dyke, 6th Baronet and Elizabeth Wells, Hart Dyke was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1870 he married Lady Emily Caroline Montague, daughter of the 7th Earl of Sandwich.

He was Conservative Member of Parliament for West Kent 1865–1868, Mid Kent 1868–1885 and for Dartford from 1885–1906.

He was Conservative Whip from 1868–1874, and held Ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1874–1880, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1885–1886 and Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education from 1887–1892.

He succeeded father to the baronetcy in 1875, and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1880.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Holmesdale Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt	Member of Parliament for West Kent with Viscount Holmesdale 1865–1868	Succeeded by Sir Charles Mills John Gilbert Talbot
Preceded by (constituency created)	Member of Parliament for Mid Kent with Viscount Holmesdale 1868–1880 Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt 1880–1884 John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy 1884–1885 1868–1885	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (constituency created)	Member of Parliament for Dartford 1885–1906	Succeeded by James Rowlands
Political offices
Preceded by Arthur Wellesley Peel	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1874–1880	Succeeded by Lord Richard Grosvenor
Preceded by Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Chief Secretary for Ireland 1885–1886	Succeeded by William Henry Smith
Preceded by Henry Holland	Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education 1887–1892	Succeeded by Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland
Baronetage of England
Preceded by Percival Hart Dyke	Baronet (of Horeham) 1875–1931	Succeeded by Oliver Hart Dyke