Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford

Frederick Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1732 – 7 August 1799) was a British peer.

"Frederick Wentworth" redirects here. For the Jane Austen character, see Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion).

He was the eldest son of William Wentworth, a gentleman usher of the privy chamber to Augusta, Princess of Wales. William was the son of Peter Wentworth of Henbury, the brother of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), who was included in the special remainder creating the earldom.

Frederick Thomas was educated at Eton and commissioned an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards on 3 December 1760. On 29 January 1773, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cornwall. In 1791, he succeeded his first cousin once removed, William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (the last heir-male of the 1st Earl), as Earl of Strafford. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire on 2 March 1793.[1] Upon his death in 1799, his estates passed to his sister Augusta Anne Hatfield-Kaye. On 17 September 1772, Frederick Wentworth married Elizabeth Gould, third daughter of Thomas Gould of Frome Billet, co. Dorset, and his wife, Mary Freke, daughter of William Freke of Hinton St Mary, co. Dorset. Elizabeth Wentworth, Countess Strafford died on 1 May 1811.

References
  1. Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 3. London: Longmans, Green. p. 417.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
William Wentworth		 Earl of Strafford
2nd creation
1791–1799		 Extinct
Re-created in 1847 for John Byng


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