Bruce Vernon-Wentworth

Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth (14 December 1862 – 12 November 1951) was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and first-class cricketer.

[1] The eldest son of Thomas Frederick Charles Vernon Wentworth of Wentworth Castle near Barnsley, Yorkshire and Dall House, Rannoch, Perthshire and his wife Lady Harriet Augusta Canning de Burgh, daughter of the Marquess of Clanricarde and grand daughter of former prime minister George Canning.

[1][2] Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he received a commission into the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of captain.

[4] A member of the Conservative Party, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of Barnsley on three occasions.

[8][9] He sold Wentworth Castle to Barnsley Corporation in 1948, and died unmarried in 1951, aged 88.