Wentworth

Wentworth may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Locations 3 Fiction 4 Institutions 5 Other

People

• Baron Wentworth (born 1529), the Wentworth peerage, several men and women.
• D'Arcy Wentworth (1762–1827), surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I.
• Erastus Wentworth (1813–1886), an educator, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a missionary to China.
• Henry Wentworth, grandfather of Jane Seymour
• Jeff Wentworth (born 1940), member of the Texas State Senate from San Antonio
• John Wentworth, several people:
  • John Wentworth (Lieutenant-Governor) (1671–1730), colonial Lt.-Governor of New Hampshire
  • John Wentworth (judge) (1719–1781) Jurist and revolutionary leader in New Hampshire
  • John Wentworth (governor) (1737–1820), colonial governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia
  • John Wentworth (lawyer) (1768–1820), Attorney General of Prince Edward Island and New Hampshire lawyer
  • John Wentworth (mayor) (1815–1888) Chicago mayor and U.S Congressman
  • John Wentworth Jr. (1745–1787), Continental Congress delegate from New Hampshire

• Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (1873–1957), "Lady Wentworth," notable Arabian horse breeder.
• Margery Wentworth, mother of Jane Seymour
• Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961), mystery writer
• Philip Wentworth, knight, Usher of the King's Chamber
• Stephen G. Wentworth (1811–1897), founder of Wentworth Military Academy

• Thomas Wentworth, several people:
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501–1551), Lord Chamberlain of England
  • Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525–1584), his son, blamed for England's loss of Calais to France in 1558
  • Thomas Wentworth (Recorder of Oxford) (c. 1568 – 1628), English Member of Parliament and lawyer
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591–1667), Royalist military leader during the English Civil War
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), English statesman, a major figure in the events leading up to the English Civil War
  • Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth (1613–1665), his son, Member of Parliament and also a Royalist military leader
  • Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), KG, diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Thomas Wentworth (general), British Major-General in charge of land forces during the 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), Colonel commanding the first black regiment in the U.S. Civil War
• William Charles Wentworth I (1790–1872), Australian explorer, journalist and politician
• William Charles Wentworth IV (1907–2003), an Australian politician, and noted anti-Communist
• Dixie Wentworth, a recurring character appearing in early episodes of the U.S. sketch comedy television show, MADtv
• Wentworth Miller (born 1972), actor

Locations

Australia

• Division of Wentworth, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales
• Wentworth, New South Wales, a town

Canada

• Wentworth, Nova Scotia, located in the Wentworth Valley and comprising the communities of Wentworth Centre, Wentworth Station and Wentworth Valley
• Wentworth, Quebec
• Wentworth-Nord, Quebec
• Defunct Wentworth County, Ontario and Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario

England

• Wentworth, Cambridgeshire
• Wentworth, Surrey
  • The Wentworth Club, a golf club in Surrey
• Wentworth, South Yorkshire
  • Wentworth (UK Parliament constituency), electoral district in South Yorkshire

South Africa

• Wentworth, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
• Wentworth Park, Johannesburg, Gauteng

United States

• Wentworth, Missouri
• Wentworth, New Hampshire
• Wentworth, North Carolina
• Wentworth, South Dakota

Fiction

• Captain Wentworth, character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion
• Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional prison in Melbourne, Australia from the television show Prisoner.

Institutions

• J.G. Wentworth, a financial services firm specializing in purchasing structured payments.
• Wentworth Institute of Technology, a college in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Wentworth Military Academy, a boarding school and college in Lexington, Missouri, USA
• Wentworth by the Sea, a historic hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire, USA
• Ski Wentworth, a ski hill in Wentworth, Nova Scotia, Canada
• The T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum in Pensacola, Florida, USA
• Wentworth College, Bournemouth, a day and boarding school in Dorset, UK
• Wentworth College, a college of the University of York, UK

Other

• Wentworth scale, a scale for the size of particles of granular materials
• Wentworth letter, a letter by Joseph Smith, Jr. to John Wentworth, the editor of Chicago Democrat explaining the message of the LDS Church.

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