Philip Wharton, 3rd Baron Wharton

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Philip Wharton, 3rd Baron Wharton ( June 23, 1555 - March 26, 1625 ) was an English nobleman and politician of the later Tudor and early Stuart periods .

Youth and education

Philip Wharton was the son of Thomas Wharton, 2nd Baron Wharton and Anne Radcliffe, daughter of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, and was born on June 23, 1555. On the occasion of a so-called cavalier education trip to France in 1572, his schoolmaster, he and some young noblemen traveling with him came to Paris and were caught in the slaughter of St. Bartholomew's Night . While his schoolmaster was slain, the English ambassador Francis Walsingham saved him and other young Englishmen . Back in England, he studied from Easter 1573 at Jesus College of the University of Cambridge Law. As early as 1572, after the death of his father, he had inherited the title of 3rd Baron Wharton and his seat in the House of Lords .

Further career

He began his professional career as a lawyer and was inducted into Gray's Inn on February 3, 1579 . As a man of the north - his family's estates had been in the northern counties of Westmorland, Cumberland and York for centuries - he and the Earl of Sussex represented his Queen, Elizabeth I , in the Royal Chapel in Stirling on August 30, 1594 Baptism of Prince Henry , son of the presumed English heir to the throne, James VI. of Scotland (later James I of England). On November 24, 1599 he became one of the High Commissioners of the County of York , later, in 1618/19, under James I, he was Commissioner of the Border.

Wharton was married twice. His first marriage was in the presence of Queen Elizabeth on June 24, 1577 with Frances Clifford, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cumberland. After her death, he married Dorothy Colby in February 1597. His heir as 4th Baron Wharton was his grandson Philip Wharton (1613–1695), since his sons had died before him. He himself died on March 26, 1625.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The Complete Peerage , Volume XII, 2, pp. 600-603.
  2. ↑ Digges: Complete Ambassador , pp. 250, 252.
  3. ^ A b Leigh Rayment's Peerage , Wharton article
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Wharton Baron Wharton
1572-1625 		Philip Wharton
personal data
SURNAME Wharton, Philip, 3rd Baron Wharton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and politician of the later Tudor and early Stuart periods
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1555
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1625