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    Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (9 August 1737 – 8 April 1820) was the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution...
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  • of New Hampshire from 1717 to 1730; grandfather of Sir John Wentworth Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), governor of New Hampshire from 1767 to...
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  • Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (c. 1583 – October 1631), of Gosfield, Essex, was an English aristocrat. He was the eldest of two sons born of John Wentworth...
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    in his turn would also become the last royal governor, Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet. John Norris McClintock, Colony, province, state, 1623-1888: History...
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    John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, PC FRS (25 April 1655 – 10 July 1700), known as Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, from 1675 to 1696, was an English politician...
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    cousin. Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), a grandson of Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth through his son Mark, nephew of Benning Wentworth, and...
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    known as Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet, between 1614 and 1628. Wentworth was born in London. He was the son of Sir William Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Wentworth...
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  • Sir William Wentworth, 4th Baronet (1686–1763) Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, 5th Baronet (1726–1792) Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1673–1720) Sir...
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    barrister and MP for Eye. Lady Catherine Finch, who married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Gosfield. He died in December 1614 and was succeeded by...
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    Judith Noel, daughter of the first Viscount Wentworth, and her husband Sir Ralph Milbanke, 6th Baronet, of Halbany, and the widow of the famous poet...
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    Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet (18 February 1810 – 10 May 1869), was an English art patron, horticulturalist and Whig politician. He is best...
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    Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB FRS (23 August 1815 – 16 October 1900) was an English physician and educator. Henry Acland was born in...
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    century. John Wentworth, High Sheriff of Essex, who died in 1613, left "a splendid inheritance" to his eldest son, Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, who ruined...
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  • Governor Wentworth may refer to: Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820), Governor of the Province of New Hampshire from 1767 to 1775 Benning Wentworth (1696–1770)...
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    four children: Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (1670–1741), married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet of North Elmsall, and had issue William Cavendish, 2nd Duke...
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    Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet PC (4 September 1843 – 26 January 1911) was an English Liberal and Radical politician. A republican in the early...
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    enforced until 1766, when Governor John Wentworth began enforcing it. On April 13, 1772, Sheriff Benjamin Whiting and Deputy John Quigley discovered a sawmill...
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  • Wentworth (a daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland and, his second wife, Lucy Wentworth, a daughter of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet,...
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    burial of the 1st Viscount Torrington, seated at Southill Park. Sir William Wentworth, 1st Baronet (d. 1614) Sir Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baronet (1593–1641)...
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  • Sir Alexander Wentworth Macdonald Bosville Macdonald, 14th Baronet JP DL (né Alexander Wentworth Macdonald Bosville; 26 September 1865 – 26 March 1933)...
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    for a year. From 1767 to 1775, he served on the council of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, the governor of the Province of New Hampshire. He represented...
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    c. 1585), a barrister. Lady Catherine Finch, who married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Gosfield (c. 1583–1631). Soon after their marriage, her...
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    Anne Twysden (category Wives of baronets)
    Finch (MP for Eye), and Lady Catherine Finch (who married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Gosfield). Anne learned four languages as a child at the...
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  • including: Mary Lowther († 1706), Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, Elizabeth Lowther who married Sir William Ramsden, 2nd Baronet, Jane Lowther († 1752), Margaret...
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  • including: Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (c. 1583–1631), who married Lady Catherine Finch, a daughter of Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet and the former...
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  • lawyer John Vardill (1749–1811), New York City-born British spy, clergyman, educator, pamphleteer, playwright, and poet Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet (1737–1820)...
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    1989) Baron Wentworth Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sir Sidney (1893). Dictionary of National Biography. p. 390. Retrieved 5 February 2016. Burke, Sir Bernard (2009)...
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  • mother's death in 1638, her father married Lucy Wentworth (a daughter of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Gosfield), with whom he had another daughter...
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    Sir John Seymour, of Wolf-hall, Wiltshire, and Margaret Wentworth, daughter of Sir John Wentworth, of Nettlestead, in Suffolk. The Seymours were a family...
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    Ralph Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Werke (category Grey baronets)
    grandparents were Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet, of Gosfield and the former Lady Catherine Finch (a daughter of Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth...
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