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WHARTON, HENRY (1664–1695)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHARTON, See also:HENRY (1664–1695) , See also:English writer, was descended from See also:Thomas, 2nd See also:Baron Wharton (1520-1572),being a son of the Rev. See also:Edmund Wharton, See also:vicar of Worstead, See also:Norfolk. See also:Born at Worstead on the 9th of See also:November x664, Wharton was educated by his See also:father, and then at Gonville and See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge. Both his See also:industry and his talents were exceptional, and his university career was brilliant. In 1686 he entered the service of the ecclesiastical historian, the Rev. See also:William See also:Cave (1637–1713), whom he helped in his See also:literary See also:work; but considering that his assistance was not sufficiently appreciated he soon forsook this employment. In 1687 he was ordained See also:deacon, and in 1688 he made the acquaintance of the See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, William See also:Sancroft, under whose generous patronage some of his literary work was done. The See also:arch-See also:bishop, who had a very high See also:opinion of Wharton's See also:character and talents, made him one of his chaplains, and presented him to the Kentish living of Sundridge, and afterwards to that of Chartham in the same See also:county. In 1689 he took the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to William and See also:Mary, but he wrote a severe See also:criticism of Bishop See also:Burnet's See also:History of the See also:Reformation, and it was partly owing to the bishop's hostility that he did not obtain further preferment in the English See also:church. He died on the 5th of See also:March 1695, and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. Wharton's most valuable work is his Anglia sacra, a collection of the lives of English archbishops and bishops, which was published in two volumes in 1691. Some of these were written by Wharton himself; others were borrowed from See also:early writers.

His other writings include, in addition to his criticism of the History of the Reformation, A See also:

treatise of the See also:celibacy of the See also:clergy (1688); The See also:enthusiasm of the Church of See also:Rome demonstrated in some observations upon the See also:life of See also:Ignatius See also:Loyola (1688) ; and A See also:defence of pluralities (1692, new ed. 1703). In the See also:Lambeth Library there are sixteen volumes of Wharton's See also:manuscripts. Describing him as " this wonderful See also:man," See also:Stubbs says that Wharton did for the elucidation of English Church history " more than any one before or since." A life of Wharton is included in See also:George D'Oyly's Life of W. Sancroft (1821).

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