Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam

William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam (28 May 1904 – 21 September 1979) a.k.a. Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam was the 10th and last Earl Fitzwilliam. He died at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.[1] He left no issue from his marriage.[2]

He left £11,776,401 gross (£11,584,880 net), thus paying virtually no death duties.[3]

Marriage

On 3 April 1956 he married Joyce Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (25 April 1898 - 7 June 1995), formerly Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale of Houghton Hall who had been married to Henry FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent (1883–1962) from whom she was divorced in 1955.[4]

She died at her home in Peterborough[5]

Her second husband's home, Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, is the largest private residence in England, and with his second seat of Milton Hall, Peterborough, the largest house in Cambridgeshire, also at her disposal, she may have felt little need to retain Houghton for her own use.

Ancestry

References

  1. (obituaries: Daily Telegraph 24 September 1979; Yorkshire Post 24 September 1979)
  2. Peterborough City Council website, "Wentworth-Fitzwilliam family of Milton". Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  3. (The Guardian 8 December 1979)
  4. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, pp.452, 453
  5. (obits: Yorkshire Post 15 June 1995; The Times 17 June 1995)

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