Family and Education
bap. 19 Oct. 1623, 1st s. of Humphrey Wharton of Burtergill, Warcop, and Catherine, da. of Peter Senhouse of Netherhall, Cumb.Crosby Ravensworth, Westmld. par. reg.; Morant, Essex (1768), i. 481; Nicolson, Burn, Westmld. and Cumb. ii. 159. educ. Sedbergh g.s.; St John’s, Camb. 16 June 1640, BA 1644;Al. Cant. G. Inn 8 Feb. 1648;G. Inn Admiss. 247. called, 29 June 1655.PBG Inn, i. 413. m. by 1648, Elizabeth (d. Apr. 1669), da. of Andrew Browne of Lincoln’s Inn, Mdx. at least 2s. 1da.PROB11/330, f. 348v; Morant, Essex, i. 481; E.A. Wood, Hist. of Thorpe-le-Soken (1976), 56; Al. Cant. ‘Andrew Wharton’. suc. fa. aft. Apr. 1638.BHO, The Ct. of Chivalry 1634-1640 ed. R. Cust, A. Hopper, ‘700 Wharton v Farer’. d. 6 Aug. 1669.Morant, Essex, i. 481.
Offices Held
Local: j.p. Cumb., Westmld. Mar.-bef. Oct. 1660;
Court: sec. to queen mother aft. 1660–?d.
: of Warcop, Westmld. and Mdx., Gray’s Inn.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
WHARTON, Thomas (1623-69), of Warcop, Westmld., and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.
Will
4 June 1668, pr. 26 Aug. 1669.PROB11/330, f. 348.
Estates
in 1653, he and another gentleman purchased from the treason trustees, for £561, manor of Bewley Castle, Westmld. (formerly the property of Sir Philip Musgrave*), which they sold in 1657.C54/3932/3. In 1654, Wharton sold property in Long Riston, Yorks. for £660.E. Riding RO, DDRI/22/94. In 1654, he purchased, for £600, manors of Lanercost Abbey and Walton, capital messuage of Lanercost Abbey and property in Irthington, Lanercost and Walton, Cumb.;C54/3786/6; Cumb. RO (Carlisle), DHN/C/115/21. several manors, messuages, tenements and marshlands within parishes of Pett, Guestling, Fairlight and Icklesham and advowson of Pett, Suss., worth about £1,500 p.a. (he sold part of this property in 1656);C6/178/114; C7/381/48; Add. 38483, f. 162; E. Suss. RO, SAS/PN/559-60, 566-7; Suss. Manors, ii. 300. and, with another gentleman, ‘manor farm’ of Badcocks, Essex, for £1,360.C54/3780/20. At his d. estate inc. Thorpe Hall, Badcocks and other property in Essex and Suss.PROB11/330, f. 348; CCC 2076; Morant, Essex, i. 481.
Oxford 1644
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