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WEY upwards of sixty, and was buried in the church of St. Gudule. Roger Vander Weyden not only improved the taste of the art of his time (and in some of his heads he is more delicate in character even than John Van Eyck), but he also altered the technic. He painted both in tempera and in oil colours, and is said to have been the first to use canvasses instead of panels for pictures. He painted on fine linen; his linen pictures are mentioned by Facius, and we have a very fine example in the National gallery; it is in tempera, and represents the "Entombment of our Lord."—A died at Antwerp of the suette in 1529, and he is supposed to have been the son or grandson of the preceding. He was a member of the Painters' guild of Antwerp, and some excellent pictures are attributed to him, as, for example, his own and his wife's portraits in the National gallery, and the portrait of a lady reading, called the "Magdalen."—A was admitted a member of the Antwerp academy or guild in 1503; and, from a picture in the gallery of Brussels by him, he seems to have been born in 1465, and may also have been a grandson of the elder Roger.—R. N. W.  WEYER. See.  WHALLEY,, an English divine, was born at Rugby, on 2nd September, 1722, and was educated at Merchant Tailors' school and at Oxford. He edited Bridge's History of Northamptonshire, and the works of Ben Jonson; published an essay on historical writing, another on Shakspeare's learning, and a vindication of the authenticity of the gospels, in reply to Lord Bolingbroke. He died 12th January, 1791.—F.  WHARTON,, a distinguished divine and antiquary, was born in 1664 at Worstead, Norfolk, where his father was vicar. In his sixteenth year he entered Gains college, Cambridge. On taking his degree of B.A. with great applause, he assisted Cave in his Historia Literaria, and edited Usher's Historia Dogmatica. Having become M.A. and entered orders, he was first vicar of Minster, in the Isle of Thanet, and then rector of Chartham. He entered heartily into the popish controversy, and published a learned and elaborate treatise "On the Celibacy of the Clergy." His great work, "Anglia Sacra," undertaken by the advice of Bishop Lloyd of St. Asaph's, was published in 1691 in two volumes folio. It consists mostly of original documents, and is a history of christianity from its first planting in the country to the Reformation. He died March, 1694-95. He left a variety of MSS. on his favourite subjects of investigation. Besides editing some works of Bede, he published also a "Defence of Pluralities;" "Troubles and Trials of Laud;" "Errors and Defects in Burnet's History," &c.—J. E.  WHARTON,, Duke of, was the son of Thomas, marquis of Wharton, and was born in December, 1698. His preliminary education was conducted at home under the care of his father, whose great object was to make his son an accomplished speaker. At an early age he displayed those brilliant talents, combined with that extravagant, capricious, and reckless disposition, which made him at once "the scorn and wonder of his days." While still under age he made a rash and foolish marriage, which his father took so much to heart that he survived it only a few weeks. Young Wharton having thus come into possession of a fortune of £16,000 a year, and being freed from all restraint, he plunged at once into the wildest excesses. In 1716 he set out upon his travels; and after visiting Holland and Germany he came to Geneva, where it was intended that he should take up his residence and complete his education. But having taken some offence at his governor, he suddenly quitted Geneva and hastened to Lyons, where he wrote a letter to the Pretender, who was then residing at Avignon, and offered him the present of a horse. The Chevalier, anxious to secure the services of a young man of such splendid talents, and the heir of an old whig family, immediately sent for him to his court, where he was privately welcomed with every mark of respect. He remained only one day at Avignon, and then returned to Lyons, whence he set out for Paris, where his talents and insinuating address made him a general favourite. He returned to England about the close of 1716, and soon after visited Ireland, where, though still under age, he was allowed to take his seat in the house of peers as earl of Rathfarnham and marquis of Catherlough. In 1719 he took his seat in the British house of lords as duke of Wharton, his father having died while the patent of dukedom was preparing. His great reputation had preceded him; and notwithstanding his strange proceedings in France, he professed himself a violent partisan of the ministry. But he soon went into opposition, and in 1721, during the excitement consequent on the bursting of the South Sea bubble, he gave utterance to a most vehement philippic against the "villanous scheme," as he termed it, and launched forth into a general attack upon the whole conduct of the administration. Earl Stanhope, then secretary of state, was so much excited in replying to this bitter invective that he burst a bloodvessel, which occasioned his death next day. Three months later, the king having issued a proclamation against the infamous "Hell-fire club," of which Wharton was president, he went to the house of lords, declared that he was not as was imagined "a patron of blasphemy," and pulling out an old family Bible, proceeded with a sanctified air to quote several texts. On the trial of Atterbury in 1723 he delivered a speech in defence of the bishop which, says Dr. King, "was heard with universal admiration, and was indeed not unworthy of the oldest senator, or of the most able and eloquent lawyer." The duke's boundless profusion having by this time greatly impaired his estate, he retired to the continent, and after visiting the imperial court he went to Rome, and openly attached himself to the party of the Pretender. He was received with the highest favour by the Chevalier, and having renounced the protestant and embraced the Roman catholic faith, obtained from the mock monarch the order of the garter and the ducal title of Northumberland. He was soon after sent ambassador to Spain, to assist Ormond in urging the Spanish court to send an expedition to England, for the purpose of restoring the Stewarts. His indiscreet and dissipated behaviour, however, gave great offence to the grave and pompous Spanish dignitaries; and intelligence of his proceedings having reached England, he received a summons under the royal seal to return home. He treated this order with the utmost indifference, and plunged deeper and deeper into follies and extravagances. His duchess having died in England in 1726, he married, in opposition to the advice of all his friends, a Miss O'Byrne, the daughter of an exiled Irish colonel, and maid of honour to the queen of Spain. Suddenly quitting his wife, he joined as a volunteer the Spanish army, which was then engaged in the siege of Gibraltar. In the following year (1728) he went again to Italy. Thence he proceeded to France, where he protested to the English ambassador that he was most loyal to his sovereign, and had no connection with the Pretender. The English government, however, discredited his professions, and proceeded with the indictment for high treason which they had already prepared against him. On receiving intelligence of this procedure, the duke renewed his connection with the Jacobites and his profession of the Romish faith. He once more returned to Spain, and obtained the command of a regiment at Lerida. His health, however, was now rapidly failing, and having gone to Catalonia to try the mineral waters, he was seized with a mortal illness, and terminated his career of splendid infamy and misery on the 31st of May, 1731, in a state of great destitution, in the Bernardine convent of Poblet. Pope in his Moral Essays has given a spirited sketch of this gifted, but half-mad and wholly unprincipled nobleman. The Life and Writings of Wharton have been published in 2 vols. 8vo, and two other volumes also bear his name.—J. T.  WHARTON,, M.D., a distinguished physician and anatomist, was born at Winston, Durham, in 1614. He was educated at Pembroke hall, Cambridge, and afterwards removed to Trinity college, Oxford, as tutor to John Scrope, the natural son of the earl of Sunderland. On the breaking out of the civil war Wharton went to London, where he studied medicine under Dr. John Bathurst, physician to Oliver Cromwell. In 1646 he returned to Oxford, and on the 8th of May, 1647, was created doctor of medicine, in virtue of recommendatory letters from the parliamentary general, Fairfax. He afterwards returned to London, was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians in 1648, and a fellow in 1650. He repeatedly filled the office of censor in the college. Dr. Wharton was physician to St. Thomas' hospital, and one of the few physicians who remained in London during the plague of 1666. He was partly induced to persevere in facing the epidemic by a promise from government, that did he remain and attend the guards, who on showing symptoms of the plague were sent to St. Thomas', he should have the first vacant appointment of physician to the king. When the vacancy occurred the promise was broken, and the courageous physician obtained no reward except an honourable augmentation to his family arms, for which he had to pay Sir William Dugdale a fee of £10. He died in his house at Aldersgate Street in 1673, and 