Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam

The Right Honourable The Earl Fitzwilliam KG
copy of a portrait by John Hoppner
Born	Charles William Wentworth-FitzWilliam 4 May 1786
Died	4 October 1857(1857-10-04) (aged 71)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Eton College
Spouse	Hon. Mary Dundas ​ ​ (m. 1806; died 1830)​
Children	13, including: William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam Hon. George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Hon. Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
Parents	William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam Lady Charlotte Ponsonby

Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Ireland, and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam in the peerage of Great Britain, KG (4 May 1786 – 4 October 1857) was a British nobleman and politician. He was president three times of the Royal Statistical Society in 1838–1840, 1847–1849, and 1853–1855; and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in its inaugural year (1831–2).^[1]