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Family and Education
bap. 23 Oct. 1648, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Philip, 4th Baron Wharton; bro. of Goodwin Wharton and Henry Wharton. educ. privately (Theophilus Gale); Protestant academy, Caen 1663-4; travelled abroad (France, Italy, German States, Netherlands) 1664-6. m. (1) 16 Sept. 1673, Anne (d. 29 Oct. 1685), da. and coh. of Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Bt., of Quarrendon, Bucks. and Ditchley, Oxon., s.p.; (2) July 1692, Lucy, da. and h. of Adam, 1st Visct. Lisburne [I], 1s. 2da. suc. fa. as 5th Baron Wharton 4 Feb. 1696; cr. Earl of Wharton 23 Dec. 1706, Mq. of Wharton 15 Feb. 1715, Mq. of Catherlough [I] 12 Apr. 1715.J. P. Carswell, Old Cause, 33-36; Sir Richard Steele, Wharton Mems. (1715), 13, 18.
Offices Held

Commr. for recusants, Bucks. 1675; j.p. Bucks. 1676 – 80, Bucks. and Mdx. 1689 – d., Oxon. 1697 – ?1702; commr. for assessment, Bucks. 1679 – 80, 1689 – 90; custos. rot. Bucks. 1689 – 1702, Oxon. 1697 – 1702, 1714 – d., Westmld. 1700 – 02, 1706 – 14; dep. lt. Bucks. 1689 – 97; ld. lt. Oxon. 1697 – 1702, Bucks. Jan. – June 1702; high steward, Malmesbury 1690 – 92, 1693 – 97, 1705 – 07, 1708 – 14, Chipping Wycombe 1694 – d., Tewkesbury 1710 – d.; ranger, Woodstock park 1690 – ?1705; freeman, Wycombe 1691, Woodstock 1697; mayor, Appleby 1708–9.Bucks. Sess. Recs. ii. p. xxiii; CSP Dom. 1697, pp. 123, 149; 1700–2, pp. 122, 486; 1702–3, p. 389; Coll. Top. et Gen. i. 297–8; Wycombe Ledger Bk. ed. Ashford, 38; J. Bennett, Hist. Tewkesbury, 415; Cal. Treas. Bks. ix. 860; First Wycombe Ledger Bk. (Bucks. Rec. Soc. xi), 233; Woodstock council acts, 1679–99; W. A. Speck, Tory and Whig, 51.

PC 19 Feb. 1689 – d.; comptroller of the Household 1689 – 1702; commr. for reform of abuses in army 1689; asst. Mines Co. 1693; c.j. in eyre (south) 1697 – 1702, 1706 – 10; commr. for union with Scotland 1706; ld. lt. [I] 1708 – 10; ld. privy seal 1714–d.CSP Dom. 1689–90, p. 97; 1693, p. 207; 1697, p. 126; 1702–3, p. 488; Luttrell, vi. 75, 666.

Col. of dgns. [I] Apr. – Oct. 1710.

Parlimentarian
WHARTON, Hon. Thomas (1648-1715), of Upper Winchendon, Bucks. and Danvers House, Chelsea, Mdx.
Main residences: Upper Winchendon, Bucks.; Danvers House, Chelsea, Mdx.
Author
E.C.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title

WHARTON, Hon. Thomas (1648-1715)

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