- Philip Wharton 1st Duke of Wharton
Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (21 December 1698 - 31 May 1731), powerful Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake, profligate, and alcoholic, was one of the few people in English history, and the first since the 15th century, to have been raised to a Dukedom whilst still a minor and not closely related to the monarch. He was the son of Thomas "Honest Tom" Wharton, the Whig partisan. - Philip Wharton 3rd Baron Wharton
Philip Wharton, 3rd Baron Wharton (1555 - 1625) was an English peer of the Wharton barony. He was named after his godfather, Philip II of Spain. He inherited the title of Baron when he was 17 years old. Philip was married three times, first to Frances Clifford, second daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland in 1577. She died in 1592 and in 1597 he married to Dorothy Colby. He was married a third time after 1602. - Thomas Wharton 1st Marquess of Wharton
Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton PC (August 1648 - April 12 1715) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the son of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton. In his long political career he was a Member of Parliament for seventeen years and spearheaded the Whig opposition to King James II's government, which later developed the two party political system under Queen Anne. - Jane Wharton 7th Baroness Wharton
Jane Wharton, de jure 7th Baroness Wharton (1706-1761). Daughter of Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton and sister of Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton. Lady Jane married first John Holt. She married second Robert Coke. She died without issue when the Barony again fell into abeyance among the representative of the daughters of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton of whom Elizabeth (by his first marriage) and Mary and Philadelphia (by his second marriage) left issue. - Thomas Wharton 2nd Baron Wharton
Thomas Wharton, 2nd Baron Wharton (1520 - 1572) was an English peer. He was knighted in 1543 by Seymour-Hertford and married to Anne Radcliffe, elder daughter of Robert first earl of Sussex, in 1547. Little is known of Sir Thomas except that he was a companion of Mary I of England. He was with her at Kenninghall when young Edward VI died and Lady Jane Grey ascended the throne for nine days. Sir Tom escorted Mary to Framlingham Castle and, upon her accession, … - Philip Wharton 4th Baron Wharton
Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton (1613 - 1695) was an English peer. A Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, he served in various offices including soldier, politician and diplomat. He was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire by Parliament in July 1642. He was a Puritan and a favourite of Oliver Cromwell, which is why, from 1660 onwards he often ran into difficulty with the Crown. - Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton
Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (1495 to 23 August 1568) was born in Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, England, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Wharton of Wharton Hall and his wife Agnes Warcup. In 1518 he married Eleanor Stapleton, daughter of Sir Bryan Stapleton of Wighill. In 1531 he purchased the manor of Healaugh, where he resided for the latter part of his life. He is best known for his victory at Solway Moss for which he was given a barony by Henry VIII. - Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr.
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. was an American diplomat, the first African American in United States Foreign Service to be appointed Minister and Ambassador to a European nation. Born in Baltimore, Wharton received his law degree in 1920 and an advanced law degree in 1923 from Boston University School of Law. He practiced in Boston before joining the United States State Department as a law clerk in the Career Foreign Service Department. - Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr.
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr. (born September 13 1926) is an American economist and corporate executive appointed United States Deputy Secretary of State during the Clinton Administration. Born in Boston, his father Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. was a noted ambassador. After graduating from Boston Latin School, the younger Wharton entered Harvard College at 16. - Joseph Wharton
Joseph Wharton was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist, who was involved in mining, manufacturing, and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College. - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. - Thomas Wharton
Thomas Wharton, PhD, (born 25 February 1963) is a Canadian novelist. Born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Wharton attended the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. He was a student of Rudy Wiebe. Wharton's first book, "Icefields" (1995), was awarded the “Best First Book” in the Canada and Caribbean division of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Writers Guild of Alberta “Best First Book Award”, and the Banff Book Festival grand prize. - John A. Wharton
John Austin Wharton (July 23, 1828 - April 6, 1865) was a lawyer, plantation owner, and Confederate general during the American Civil War. He is considered one of the Confederacy's best tactical cavalry commanders. Wharton was born near Nashville, Tennessee, as the only child of Sarah Groce Wharton and William H. Wharton, later a leading politician during the Texas Revolution. When he was still an infant, the family moved to what became Brazoria County, Texas. - William H. Wharton
William Harris Wharton was an early colonist, political leader and orator in Texas. Wharton was born in Virginia and was raised by an uncle following the deaths of his parents. He graduated from the University of Nashville and was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1826. Wharton moved to Texas, and on December 5, 1827, married Sarah Ann Groce, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Their only child was a son, John A. Wharton (1828-1865), … - Arthur Wharton
Arthur Wharton, (October 28 1865 - December 13 1930) was the first black professional association football player in the world. - Michael Wharton
Michael Bernard Wharton (born Michael Bernard Nathan) (April 19, 1913 - January 23, 2006) was a newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British "Daily Telegraph". He began work on the "Way of the World" column with the illustrator Michael ffolkes (sic) three times a week at the beginning of 1957. In 1990 he began a weekly "Peter Simple" column in the "Sunday Telegraph", … - Henry Wharton
Henry Wharton (November 9, 1664 - March 5, 1695), English writer, was descended from Thomas, 2nd Baron Wharton (1520-1572), being a son of the Rev. Edmund Wharton, vicar of Worstead, Norfolk. Born at Worstead, Wharton was educated by his father, and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Both his industry and his talents were exceptional, and his university career was brilliant. In 1686 he entered the service of the ecclesiastical historian, the Rev. - David Wharton
David ("Dave") Lee Wharton (born May 19, 1969 in Warminster, Pennsylvania) is a former butterfly and medley swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Wharton set two world records during his career, was named the "Pac-10 Male Swimmer of the Year" four consecutive years (1988-91), and was also a member of the 1992 Summer Olympics team. - Tiny Wharton
Tom "Tiny" Wharton OBE (born 3 November 1927, in Glasgow; died 9 May 2005, in Newton Mearns) was a Scottish football referee in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Universally and ironically known as "Tiny", due to his colossal 6'4" frame, he was one of the most iconic and respected officials of his generation. An engineer by profession, Wharton took up refereeing at the age of 21 and had reached Class I status within 3 years. - Joseph Wharton
Joseph Wharton (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 August, 1707; died there in July, 1776), uncle of Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Wharton Jr. and father of Samuel Wharton, was a successful merchant, and the owner of "Walnut Grove," a country place on Fifth street, near Washington avenue, Philadelphia, on which the Mischianza of 1778 was held. The house was the finest of its day near that city. It was torn down in 1862, to make room for a schoolhouse. - Lian Wharton
Lian Wharton (born February 21, 1977) was an English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm slow bowler. Born in Holbrook, Derbyshire, Wharton appeared for three years as the leading spinner within the Derbyshire line-up, and has since taken his cricketing career into the realms of indoor cricket. Wharton holds match-best figures of 6-62. - Herb Wharton
Herb Wharton (born 1936) is an Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist. A Murri man, his maternal grandmother was Kooma, and both grandfathers Irish. He was born in Yumba, an Aboriginal camp in the south-western Queensland town of Cunnamulla. He has worked as a stockman, a drover and a labourer, but did not begin his writing career until he was around 50, in the 1980s, when he sat down under a tree and began to write. - Thomas Wharton Jr.
Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778) was a Pennsylvania statesman and politician of the Revolutionary era. He served as the first President of Pennsylvania (an office akin to Governor) following the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. - Deborah Fisher Wharton
Deborah Fisher Wharton (1795 - 1888) was an American Quaker minister, suffragist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights, and the mother of industrialist Joseph Wharton. She was one of a small group of dedicated Quakers who founded Swarthmore College. She was a contemporary and friend of Lucretia Mott and had many of Mott's sympathies but did not actively pursue the women's rights cause, rather she was a proponent of liberal Quaker spirituality. - Gordon Wharton
Gordon Wharton (born in 1929, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is a British poet. He published two small collections of verse in the mid to late 1950s: "This and That" (Fantasy Press 1955) and "Errors of Observation" (The School of Art, University of Reading 1957). He has edited arts periodicals such as "Chanticleer" with Patrick Galvin and written for the Times Literary Supplement. - Kenny Wharton
Kenny Wharton (born 28 November 1960 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English former professional football player. He played as both a left-back and a midfielder. Wharton started his career with his hometown club Newcastle United and played there for over ten years in between 1978 and 1989, amassing 335 appearances for the club. In 1989 he was transferred to Carlisle United. Since retiring from football, Wharton has worked at youth academies at Newcastle and Middlesbrough. - Samuel Wharton
Samuel Wharton (May 3, 1732- March, 1800) was an American merchant and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He served as a Continental Congressman from Delaware. Samuel was the son of Joseph Wharton, a successful merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a first cousin to Thomas Wharton, Jr., who was the revolutionary President of Pennsylvania. Though Samuel later made his home in Dover, he always maintained close business connections with the city, … - Martin Wharton
John Martin Wharton known as Martin Wharton, (born 6 August 1944) is a British Anglican clergy and the current Bishop of Newcastle. The son of John and Marjorie Wharton was educated at Ulverston Grammar School and Van Mildert College, Durham, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics, politics, and sociology in 1969. He was further educated at Linacre College, Oxford, where Wharton received a Bachelor in theology and a Master of Arts in 1971, … - Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (15 December 1845-1928) was an American writer, born at Southampton Furnace, Pa. She was educated at a private school in Philadelphia, devoted herself chiefly to the study of the social history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of the United States, wrote a number of entertaining books and magazine articles in this field, and was chosen historian of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Her publications include: * "St. - William Wharton
William Wharton (b. 1925 7 November), the pen name of the author Albert Du Aime, is an American-born author best known for his first novel "Birdy", which was also successful as a film. Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1943. He was inducted into the school's Wall of Fame in 1997. His first novel "Birdy" was published in 1978 when he was more than 50 years old. - Ken Wharton
On July 12, 2005, it was announced that party member and Falklands War veteran Ken Wharton intended to challenge Robert Kilroy-Silk for the leadership, claiming party members were "not being looked after". Discontented party members, including Ken Wharton, also set up the Veritas Members Association to "put the truth back into Veritas". - J. Ernest Wharton
James Ernest Wharton (October 4, 1899 - January 19, 1990) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Wharton was born in Binghamton, New York. He graduated from Union College and Albany Law School. He served in the United States Army during World War I. He worked for Travelers Insurance from 1920 until 1929. He was the district attorney of Schoharie County, … - Francis Wharton
Francis Wharton (March 7, 1820-February 21, 1889), American legal writer and educationalist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated at Yale in 1839, was admitted to the bar in 1843, became prominent in Pennsylvania politics as a Democrat, and in Philadelphia edited the "North American and United States Gazette". He was professor of English history and literature at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1856-1863. - Charles S. Wharton
Charles Stuart Wharton (April 22, 1875 - September 4, 1939) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born in Aledo, Illinois, Wharton moved to Chicago with his parents in 1878. He attended the public schools. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Chicago, Illinois. He served as prosecuting attorney for the town of Lake in 1899. - Philip Fishbourne Wharton
Philip Fishbourne Wharton was an American artist. Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Fishbourne Wharton (1778-1846), merchant, and his second wife Mary Ann Shoemaker, and the grandson of Governor Thomas Wharton Jr. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and later in Paris and Dresden. His best-known pictures are "Perdita," which received a medal at the Centennial Exposition of 1876, … - Alan Wharton
Alan Wharton, born April 30, 1923 and died August 26, 1993, was a cricketer who played for Lancashire, Leicestershire and England. An attacking left-handed batsman, Wharton appeared to have a long Test match career ahead of him when, following three centuries in seven matches, he was picked for the Headingley Test against New Zealand in 1949. But he made just 7 and 13, was injured before the next match at Lord's, and was never chosen again. - A.C. Wharton
A C Wharton, Jr. is a Tennessee politician. Elected to a first term as Mayor of Shelby County in 2002, he was reelected easily in 2006. He is a Democrat from Memphis. He attended the historically black Tennessee State University in Nashville and graduated from the University of Mississippi Law School. He is married and has four sons. He recently appeared on the GHS-TV show Crosstalk. He is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, … - Don Wharton
Don Wharton is a Christian Musician. Born Don Gordon on December 22, 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana to Howard and Millie Gordon. His father died when he was eleven years old and his mother remarried Canadian Hockey Player Len Wharton. He has been an active musician since 1979. He along with six others is known for surving a plane crash into the Bering Sea on August 13, 1993 while returning from Russia. - Bryan Wharton
Bryan Wharton (born 1939) is a British photographer. Recently Wharton was approached by the National Portrait Gallery in London who have since purchased 16 of his pictures for their collection. While Wharton was a war photographer (Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Cambodia) whose work in the Paris student riots of 1968 left him with CS gas-damaged lungs, it is his portraits of famous people, often savagely revealing, that endure. - Goodwin Wharton
Goodwin Wharton (8 March 1653 - 28 October 1704) was a Whig politician, a younger son of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton and Jane Goodwin. An avid mystic, alchemist and treasure hunter, he sent two expeditions to Tobermory to try to raise a galleon from the Spanish Armada wrecked there. Some of his treasure-hunting was done on the advice of his lover, the medium Mary Parish, who claimed to have placed him in contact with faeries and eventually God and his angels.
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