William Weutworth Fitzwilliam Fitzwilliam, fourth earl of that name in the peerage of Ireland, and second in that of England, an English statesman, born May 30, 1748, died Feb. 8, 1833. He opposed the ministry of Lord North in the American war of independence, but did not take office when his uncle, the marquis of Rockingham, formed a new cabinet in 1782. Although a political friend of Fox, he abandoned him upon hearing his eulogies of French revolutionary principles, and took office as president of the council, July 11,1794, when the duke of Portland became the nominal head of the cabinet. In 1795 he was lord lieutenant of Ireland, in the height of the disturbances which then agitated that country; but was recalled after a few months, against the decided wishes, it is said, of the Irish people, for having supported a bill presented by Grat-tan in favor of Catholic emancipation. He was president of the council for a short time in 1806, on the death of Mr. Pitt, but his liberal views kept him out of office during the greater part of his career.