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Gentleman's Magazine 1797 p.940
Oct. 6. Mr. URBAN, IN answer to the queries of Viator A. pp.725,726, I inform him, that the barony of Wharton is understood to be a barony in fee, descendable to heirs-general of the body of Sir Thomas Wharton; who, as no reference is made by Dugdale in his Baronage, vol.II. p.389, to a patent; must have been summoned to parliament, by writ, 1 Edw. VI. For the descendants of Philip Lord Wharton, by Jane Goodwin, I refer him to the Stemmata Chicheleana; a book which I have not at present, but which I recollect states various issue. There is certainly no remaining issue of Thomas, Marquis of Wharton, his son. Mary, daughter of Philip Lord Wharton, married Sir Charles Kemeys, bart. whose daughter by her married Sir John Tynte, bart. died 1785 withjout issue by his wife, Anne, daughter and heir of Dr. Busby, of Addington, in Bucks; in consequence of which his sister's son, who married John Johnson, esq. late a lieutenant-colonel in the guards, has become the representative of this daughter of Lord Wharton. Her husband has assumed the name of Kemeys-Tynte. (See Collinson's Somersetshire, I. 80.) Philadelphia Wharton, another daughter, married Sir George Lockhart, of Carnwarth, and afterwards Capt. John Ramsey, son to the Bishop of Ross. She died July 3, 1722, leaving issue by Sir George two sons and a daughter, of whom George, the eldest, died 1761, leaving nine children. (See Noble's Cromwell, II. pp.269,271.) Margaret Wharton married Major Dunck, of Pusey, in Berkshire, esq. whose issue seem all extinct. (See Noble, ut supr. p.447.) Anne Wharton married William Carr, a Scotchman. (Dugd. Bar. II. 390.) Philip Lord Wharton had, by a former wife (Elizabeth Wandesford), a daughter, Elizabeth, second wife of Robert Bertie, third Earl of Lindsay, whose heirs-general are Lady Willoughby, of Eresby, and the Countess of Cholmondeley. These ladies have certainly a co-claim to this barony; for the exclusion of half-blood does not, as I apprehand, apply to the inheritance of honours. The marriage of Philip Lord Wharton with Dorothy Colby is not mentioned by Dugdale. If your correspondent be right in this, she must have been his third, not his second, wife. The statute books will tell whether an act of attainder passed against the eccentric Duke of Wharton. I guess not. A bill of indictment for high treason was found; and it proceeded, I think, to outlawry. I know one of the co-heirs does not consider the barony forfeited. F. S. |
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