Charles Wentworth Dilke (1810-1869)
Member of the Executive Committee

Dilke was part of the original group chosen by the Royal Society of Arts to organise the day-to-day running of the Exhibition. In the early planning stages, he gathered support for the Exhibition from manufacturing towns such as Manchester and Leeds. Later on, he helped control the formidable administration needed to bring the exhibits into place in the building. He declined a knighthood and any financial reward for his efforts.

Dilke was editor of the journal The Athenaeum. He worked on later international exhibitions and was made a baronet in 1862.

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