Wentworth - People

People

  • D'Arcy Wentworth (1762–1827), surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I
  • Erastus Wentworth (1813–1886), educator, Methodist Episcopal minister and missionary to China
  • Henry Wentworth (c. 1448-between 1499 and 1501), de jure Lord Despenser and grandfather of Jane Seymour
  • Jeff Wentworth (born 1940), member of the Texas State Senate from San Antonio
  • John Wentworth (Lieutenant-Governor) (1671–1730), colonial Lieutenant-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
  • John Wentworth (actor) (1908-1989), British television actor
  • Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (1873–1957), "Lady Wentworth," notable Arabian horse breeder
  • Margery Wentworth (c. 1478-1550), mother of Jane Seymour
  • Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961), mystery writer
  • Philip Wentworth (1424-1464), English knight and Usher of the King's Chamber
  • Stephen G. Wentworth (1811–1897), founder of Wentworth Military Academy
  • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501–1551), Lord Chamberlain of England
  • Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525–1584), son of the 1st Baron Wentworth, 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), son of the 1st Earl of Cleveland, Member of Parliament and also a Royalist military leader
  • Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), 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
  • William Wentworth (elder), founder of Wentworth family in America
  • William Wentworth (1790–1872), Australian explorer, journalist and politician
  • William Wentworth (Australian politician) (1907–2003), Australian politician, and noted anti-Communist
  • Wentworth Miller (born 1972), American actor

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