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WHARTON (FAMILY)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHARTON (See also:FAMILY) . The Whartons of Wharton were an old See also:north of See also:England family, and in 1543 See also:THOMAS WHARTON (1495–1568) was created a See also:baron for his services in border warfare. From him descended the 2nd, 3rd and 4th barons; and the Iatter, See also:PHILIP WHARTON (1613–1696), was the See also:father of THOMAS WHARTON (1648–1715), who in 1706 was created 'See also:earl and in 1714 See also:marquess of Wharton. The 1st marquess was one of the See also:chief Whig politicians after the Revolution. He is famous in See also:literary See also:history as the author of the famous See also:political ballad, Lilliburlero, which " sang See also:James II. out of three kingdoms." Wharton was See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland in See also:Anne's reign, and incurred the wrath of See also:Swift, who attacked him as See also:Verres in the Examiner (No. 14), and See also:drew a See also:separate " See also:character " of him, which is one of Swift's masterpieces. He was a See also:man of See also:great wit and versatile cleverness, and cynically ostentatious in his immorality, having the reputation of being the greatest See also:rake and the truest Whig of his See also:time. See also:Addison dedicated to him the fifth See also:volume of the Spectator, giving him a very different " character " from Swift's. His first wife, See also:ANNA WHARTON (1632–1685), was an authoress, whose poems, including an See also:Elegy on Lord See also:Rochester, were celebrated by See also:Walter and See also:Dryden. His son, PHILIP WHARTON (1698–1731), See also:duke of Wharton, succeeded to his father's lnarquessate and See also:fortune, and in 1718 was created a duke. But he quickly earned for himself, by his See also:wild and profligate frolics and reckless playing at politics, See also:Pope's See also:satire of him as " the scorn and wonder of our days "(Moral Essays, i. 179).

He spent his large estates in a few years, then went abroad and gave See also:

eccentric support to the Old Pretender. There is a lively picture of his See also:appearance at See also:Madrid in 1726 in a See also:letter from the See also:British See also:consul, quoted in See also:Stanhope's History of England (ii. 140). He was outlawed in 1729, and at his See also:death the titles became See also:extinct. In 1843 a claim was made before the See also:House of Lords for a revival of the See also:barony in favour of Mr Kemys-Tynte, a descendant of the 1st baron in the See also:female See also:line. For the history of the family see E. R. Wharton's Whartons of Wharton See also:Hall (1898).

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