Charles John Wentworth Dilke

The Rev. Fr. Sir Charles Dilke, 6th Baronet, (21 February 1937 – 14 November 2022) was a British baronet and priest of the London Oratory. Life Charles John Wentworth Dilke was born in London in 1937, to Sir John Dilke, 5th Bt. and Sheila Seeds, daughter of the future ambassador to the Soviet Union Sir William Seeds. Dilke studied at Ashdown House followed by Winchester College and King’s College, Cambridge for a degree in architecture. It was at Cambridge that Dilke, previously having shown few signs of religiosity, began to attend chapel services and fell under the influence of the then Roman Catholic chaplain Monsignor Alfred Gilbey, leading to his conversion. London Oratory On the advice of Gilbey, Dilke entered the London Oratory shortly after graduating from Cambridge, where he would spend the next 56 years as a priest and serve from 1981 to 1987 as a provost. He was ordained in 1966, after studying at Rome's Beda College during the Second Vatican Council.