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Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1695/6)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1613-04-08
Death Date: 1696-02-05 (possibly died 4 Feb. 1695/6)

Notes

Attended Eton College 1624 (for one year); matriculated Exeter College, Oxford University 3 March 1625/6; licence to travel abroad for three years 1629

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Wandesford, Elizabeth ( - 1635)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1632-9-23
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Goodwin, Jane (1617/8 - 1658)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1637-9-7
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union produced an additional 3 daughters
  3. Kerr, Anne ( - 1692)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1661-8-24
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Married between 24 and 26 Aug. of this year

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 4th Baron Wharton

Titles

  • 4th Baron Wharton
    Assumed: 1625-03-25
    Vacated: 1695/6-02-05

General Lands Note

Came of age 1634

Details of Offices

Began
Lord Lieut, Lancashire 1641/2 -2 -28
Lord Lieut, Buckinghamshire 1642 -6 -24
Lord Lieut, Westmorland 1644 -9 -11
Commissioner of Custos Rotulorum, Cumberland 1650
Commissioner of Custos Rotulorum, Westmorland 1650
JP, Cumberland 1650
JP, Westmorland 1650
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1650
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1650
Privy Councillor, England 1688/9 -2 -14

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Healaugh Priory, Yorkshire: West Riding
    Acquired: 1625-03
    Divested: 1695/6-02
    Patrimony (via grandfather). Healaugh Farm East & West built from materials supplied from the ruins of the priory. Healaugh Farm East is the remains of the Wharton's 16th c. manor house
  • Wharton Hall, Westmorland
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1625-03
    Divested: 1695/6-02
    Patrimony (via grandfather)

Lands

  • Bedfordshire: Wobourn
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cumberland
  • Ireland
  • Westmorland

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Town Hall, Kendal, Westmorland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Kendal, Westmorland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Town Hall, Kendal, Westmorland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Workington Hall, Workington, Cumberland Lord Wharton's Players
Performance - Moot Hall, Carlisle, Cumberland Lord Wharton's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1
Lord Wharton's Players Wharton, Philip (1613 - 1696) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Wharton Hall Westmorland Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Doyle, James E. The Official Baronage of England Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885. 3 vols. London: Longmans, 1886
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.