Baron Wharton

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Baron Wharton is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

Award and history of the title

Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, 5th Baron Wharton

The title was bestowed on January 30, 1545 by the grant of a nobility patent ( letters patent ) from King Henry VIII to the knight and member of the House of Commons Sir Thomas Wharton , in recognition in particular of the decisive victory over the Scots in the battle of Solway Moss that he commanded . His family came from the landed gentry in Westmorland and was already under King I. Edward mentioned.

His great-great-great-grandson, the 5th Baron, was also a member of the House of Commons and was made Earl of Wharton , in the County of Westmorland, and Viscount Winchendon , of Winchendon in the County of Buckingham on December 23, 1706 in the Peerage of England , raised. On January 7, 1715 he was also in the Peerage of Ireland the titles of Marquess of Catherlough , Earl of Rathfarnham , in the County of Dublin , and Baron Trim , in the County of Meath , and on February 15, 1715 in the Peerage of Great Britain was awarded the titles of Marquess of Wharton , in the County of Westmorland, and Marquess of Malmesbury , in the County of Wilts .

His son, the 2nd Marquess, was raised on January 28, 1718 in the Peerage of Great Britain to Duke of Wharton , in the County of Westmorland. Since he sided with the Jacobites and fought against the British crown on the Spanish side during the siege of Gibraltar in 1727 , he was ostracized for high treason in 1729 and his titles were stripped of him. The ostracism was declared ineffective retrospectively in 1825, whereby all of his titles de iure expired upon his childless death in 1731.

In 1844, the House of Commons Colonel Charles Kemeys-Tynte (1778-1860) applied to the Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the House of Lords to be confirmed as co-heir to the title of Baron Wharton. He was a great-great-great-nephew of the duke's second degree in the female line and took the position that the Barony Wharton was a Barony by writ and therefore inheritable in the female line. On the basis of the evidence available at the time that the letters patent could no longer be found, the committee decided on July 28, 1845 that the barony had been granted by King Edward VI through Writ of Summons on November 26, 1548 . created. According to this, the barony had not expired in 1731, but fell in Abeyance between his two sisters and when the younger de iure died childless to the elder, Jane Wharton, as the 7th baroness, and since her childless death in 1761 in Abeyance between her cousins ​​or their descendants. Based on this decision, the Abeyance was ended on February 15, 1916 by Writ of Summons in favor of the great-great-grandson of the above-mentioned Colonel, Charles Kemeys-Tyne , as the 8th Baron Wharton.

With the death of his daughter, the 10th Baroness, the title fell in 1974 in Abeyance between their two daughters. The Abeyance was ended on April 4, 1990 in favor of the elder, Myrtle Robertson , as the 11th Baroness. Today's heir to the title is their son Myles Robertson, 12th Baron Wharton .

It is now considered certain that the barony was actually created by Letters patent in 1545, insofar as the current barony is a title of nobility due to procedural errors . Strictly speaking, the end of Abeyance in 1916 represents a new creation of a barony by writ.

List of Barons Wharton (1545)

The alleged title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the daughter of the current title holder, Hon. Meghan Robertson (* 2006).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Complete Peerage . Volume XII, p. 1544.
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 5609, HMSO, London, January 18, 1718, p. 2 ( PDF , English).