Wentworth
Americannoun
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Thomas, 1st Earl of Strafford. Strafford, 1st Earl of.
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William Charles, 1793–1872, Australian political leader, author, and journalist.
noun
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Thomas. See (Earl of) Strafford
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William Charles. 1790–1872, Australian explorer and statesman who was a member of the exploring party that first crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813 and was later a leader in the movement for self-government in New South Wales
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Her friend and posthumous editor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, recalled that hers seemed a “poetry torn up by the roots.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Rory McIlroy stayed in contention with a five-under 67 to sit four strokes behind second-round leader Ryan Gerard at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But I thought back to Wentworth Park, where I had interpreted his quietness as something happening to him.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Others, including Fifth Monarchist Wentworth Day, followed suit in later prosecutions.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
On June 29, 1889, when Holmes’s building was half completed, Chicago annexed Englewood and soon afterward established a new police precinct, the Tenth, Second Division, at Sixty-third and Wentworth, seven blocks from Holmes’s pharmacy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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