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Family and Education
bap. 23 Oct. 1648, 3rd but 1st surv. s. Philip Wharton, 4th Bar. Wharton, and 2nd w. Jane (d.1658), da. of Arthur Goodwin‡ of Winchenden Bucks.; bro. of Goodwin‡ and Henry Wharton‡. educ. privately (tutor Theophilus Gale); Bodl. Rawl. 49, no. 15. Protestant academy at Caen 1662-4; J. Stoye, English travellers abroad 1604-67 (1989), 304. travelled abroad (France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands) 1664-6; R. Steele, Memoirs of the Life of the Most Noble Thomas late marquess of Wharton with his speeches in Parliament, both in England and Ireland, (1715), 13. LLD Camb. 1705. m. (1) 16 Sept. 1673 (with £2,500 p.a. and £10,000), Anne (d.1685), Verney ms mic. M636/40, Sir R. Verney to J. Verney, 8 Nov. 1685. da. and coh. of Sir Henry Lee, 3rd bt. of Quarrendon, Bucks., s.p.; (2) July 1692 Lucy (d.1717), da. of Adam Loftus, Visct. Lisburne [I], Verney ms mic. M636/45, J. Verney to Sir R. Verney, 18 May, 11 June 1692; TNA, C 104/20, pt. 1. 1s. 2da. d. 12 Apr. 1715; Add. 72502, f. 44; Add. 4224, f. 78. will 8 Apr. 1715, pr. 13 Sept. 1715. TNA, PROB 11/548.
Offices Held

PC 19 Feb. 1689–1702, Bodl. Carte 79, f. 743. 1708–10; Add. 28041, f. 16. commr. abuses in army 1689, Add. 17677 II, ff. 77–8; CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 97. appeals for prizes 1695, appeal in Admiralty cases 1697, CSP Dom. 1697, pp. 510–11. Union with Scotland 1706; CSP Dom. 1705–6, p. 110. comptroller of household 1689–1702; CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 5; Add. 5763, f. 6; Flying Post or the Post Master, 14–16 Apr. 1702. c.j. in eyre south of Trent 1697–1702, CSP Dom. 1697, p. 126. 1706–10; Add. 72500, ff. 30–1. ld. lt. [I] Dec. 1708- Oct. 1710; Post Boy, 20–23 Nov. 1708, 21–23 Sept. 1710. ld. privy seal, 23 Sept. 1714–d. London Gazette, 21–25 Sept. 1714.

Commr. recusants, Bucks. 1675; custos rot., Bucks. 1689 – 1702, Westmld. 1700 – 02, 1706–14, Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 47. Oxon. 1697–1702, CSP Dom. 1697, p. 149. 1714 – d.; high steward, Malmesbury 1689 – 98, 1704 – 11, Chipping Wycombe 1694 – d., Tewkesbury 1710 – d.; lt. Woodstock Park 1690; Carte 79, f. 747. freeman, Chipping Wycombe 1691, Woodstock 1697, Appleby, 1700, Dublin 1709; ld. lt., Oxon. 1697–1702, CSP Dom. 1702–3, p. 389. Bucks. Jan. – June 1702; alderman Appleby 1700, Add. 70289, f. 38. mayor 1708 – 09.

Col. drag. [I] Apr. – Oct. 1710.

Asst. Mines Adventurers 1693; commr. Greenwich Hosp. (ex officio) 1695; Q. Anne’s Bounty 1704.

Parlimentarian
WHARTON, Hon. Thomas (1648-1715), of Upper Winchendon, Bucks. and Danvers House, Chelsea, Mdx.
Likenesses

oil on canvas by Sir G. Kneller, 1710-15, NPG 3233.

Author
Eagles, Robin
Volume
Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Religion
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