Ashton Wentworth Dilke (11 August 1850 – 12 March 1883) was an editor, British traveller and radical Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1883.

[3] He was made a scholar in 1870 and was a prominent member of the Cambridge Union Society, although he left before finishing his degree, instead travelling to Russia in 1872.

He began writing a book about Russia, two chapters of which appeared in the Fortnightly Review in 1874, but it was never published.

In 1880 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but his ill-health led him to resign in February 1883, spending the last few months of his life in Algiers, where he died in March aged 32 years.

His wife went on to be a leading suffragist and she was a witness called during Ashton's brother's divorce.